A DISCOVERY OF SECRET LETTERS

LETTER-WRITING and literature go so well together that they become one in epistolary literature! Great novels comprised entirely of letters are Samuel Richardson's Clarissa and Pamela, and Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre de Laclos.

A discovery of secret letters forms the plot of A.S. Byatt's Possession, while letters make momentous appearance in Bram Stoker's Dracula, Elizabeth Gaskell's Cousin Phillis, Alcott's Little Women and so on and so forth into novel-writing eternity!

Emails help to build Christian and Ana's relationship in Fifty Shades of Grey! What I wouldn't give to get a love-stricken email from Mr Grey, CEO!

I have to say that, in real life, among the most talented letter writers must be, for me, Lord Byron and John Keats. Reading their letters is like reading a lovely and exciting novel. Both Byron and Keats were Romantic poets, both were beautiful and both died young (Keats <3 had just turned 25). Yet their personal beauty was equalled by the beauty of their prose, the beauty of their language and the power of their words!