Letters, learning and Learned Ladies - An Analysis of Otto Sperling, Jr:s (1634-1715) correspondence with Scandinavian Women.

In English The paper offers an analysis of some aspects (pragmatic, status, personal, feminist and stylistic) of the letters exchanged between the Danish Profesor Otto Sperling, Jr, 1634-1715) and three learned women (Anne Margrethe Qvitzow, the Cille Gad and Sophia Elisabeth Brenner), differentiating between the personal elements and the more formal and image-building ones in order to create a basis for a discussion on the postitions held by the correspondents.