Letters to a Daughter

Hubert Bland (1855 - 1914)

Letters to a Daughter is a collection of essays proffering ‘fatherly advice’ in the form of a one-sided correspondence. Each of these takes the form of a response to a question that a young woman who is about to enter adult society might pose. The fictional daughter in Letters to a Daughter is named ‘Alexa.’ The author, Hubert Bland, a columnist and political activist, dedicated the book to his daughter, Rosamund Edith Nesbit Bland.

While married to the author Edith Nesbit, Mr. Bland had a lifelong extramarital relationship with Alice Hoatson, the birth mother of Rosamund - Edith, Alice and Hubert lived together ‘openly’. Rosamund wrote The Man in the Stone House, a novel about a young woman’s relationship with her parents, and the children’s book Moo Cow Tales; she also wrote the children's book Cat Tales with her adoptive mother, Edith Nesbit - Summary by Brian Fullen

Genre(s): Essays & Short Works

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 ON LIFE AT LARGE Jennifer Fournier
00:16:01
Play 02 ON GOING TO CHURCH Jennifer Fournier
00:12:49
Play 03 ON BEING DELIGHTFUL Nigel Kerr
00:13:50
Play 04 THE GLAMOUR OF THE FOOTLIGHTS Dyxlesic
00:18:15
Play 05 THE RUDENESS OF WOMEN Winnifred Assmann
00:16:16
Play 06 DRESS AND FASHION Seraphina
00:14:46
Play 07 A MORAL QUESTION De Anna Lee
00:12:04
Play 08 THE LIMITS OF FLIRTATION Fierdin
00:16:28
Play 09 MEN’S LOVE Fierdin
00:15:54
Play 10 THE MAN’S POINT OF VIEW docdlmartin
00:16:22
Play 11 THE DOMESTIC HEARTH Winnifred Assmann
00:15:55
Play 12 THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE Beeswaxcandle
00:14:41
Play 13 THE RIGHT SORT OF MAN Seraphina
00:15:43
Play 14 MODERN MARRIAGE Seraphina
00:15:50
Play 15 THE SUBTLE SOMETHING Hope
00:05:14