Posting It : The Victorian Revolution in Letter Writing

Name: Posting It
Brand: University Press of Florida
SKU: 9780813033792
Price: 10150 KES
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ISBN: 9780813033792

by Catherine Golden

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Format Hardback

ISBN-10 0813033799

ISBN-13 9780813033792

Publisher University Press of Florida

Imprint University Press of Florida

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Oct 31st, 2009

Print length 320 Pages

Weight 609 grams

Dimensions 24.40 x 16.20 x 2.40 cms

Product Classification: British & Irish history Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 Social & cultural history History European history Social and cultural history

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Allowing anyone, from any social class, to send a letter anywhere in the country for only a penny had multiple and profound cultural impacts. This book demonstrates how cheap postage led to a postal 'network' that can be viewed as a forerunner of computer-mediated communications.

Although 'snail mail' may seem old fashioned and outdated in the twenty-first century, Catherine Golden argues that the creation of the Penny Post in Victorian England was just as revolutionary in its time as e-mail and text messages are today. Until Queen Victoria instituted the Postal Reform Act of 1839, mail was a luxury affordable only by the rich. Allowing anyone, from any social class, to send a letter anywhere in the country for only a penny had multiple and profound cultural impacts. Golden demonstrates how cheap postage - which was quickly adopted in other countries - led to a postal 'network' that can be viewed as a forerunner of computer-mediated communications. Indeed, the revolution in letter writing of the nineteenth century led to blackmail, frauds, unsolicited mass mailings, and junk mail - problems that remain with us today.

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