Issues in the cultural history of women. 19th century correspondence manuals. This article, based on a body of correspondence manuals (1830-1900), attempts to pinpoint women's practices at the intersection of publishing strategies and prescriptive discourse. Thus, on the male side, authors of manuals take better advantage of resources in the publishing market offering models that bring to the fore letter-writers able to manage both love and business. On the female side, a handful of authors confine themselves to the accepted fields of etiquette and pedagogy: a small number of model letters, even more restricted when concerned with letters that are more than simple acknowledgments, limited content to domestic matters. And yet, the figure of ...