Florian Gassner, University of British Columbia

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Cultural History of Central & Eastern Europe

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Epistolary culture circa 1800: the letters of Charlotte Schiller (1766-1826)
SSHRC · 2014 · Co-investigator
$200,000

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Epistolary culture circa 1800: the letters of Charlotte Schiller (1766-1826)

Co-investigatorSSHRC2014Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Pailer, Gaby

Keywords: epistolary communication; cultural; political and intellectual history; class; gender; and family education; women's authorship and social networking

$200,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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