I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer: Letters on Love and Marriage from the World's First Personal Advice Column

by Mary Beth Norton

A fascinating collection of questions and answers--about courtship, marriage, love, and sex--from a seventeenth-century periodical

The Athenian Mercury--a one-page, two-sided periodical published in 1690s London--included the world's first personal advice column. Acclaimed historian and Pulitzer Prize-finalist Mary Beth Norton's "I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer" is a remarkable collection of questions and answers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691253994
• ISBN13: 9780691253992
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 216 Pages