Angie Mezzetti introduces her Lyric Feature documentary Saucy Mistress Boldface, which offers a peek through a Georgian window at life for women from 1746 to 1751, via a series of 221 letters from the Bishop Of Elphin to his only teenage daughter, Alicia. In The Bishop’s words, we hear about music, fashions, lazy servants, exotic fruits and women’s health. Listen to Saucy Mistress Boldface above…
‘The personal letter was the first means whereby women had a virtual existence outside the home in 1700s in Ireland, and women excelled at the personal letter.’
She had me at hello.
Dr Jane Maxwell was giving a talk in Trinity in 2019 entitled ‘Dear Giddy Brat’ about a very precious collection of letters held in the college library which are a…