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 drawn from...