Book of interest: Going postal

       Okay, it's a university press release, touting the work of their own, but I have to admit I was intrigued by Therese Boyd's report in the Penn State News about how Professor looks at how British postal rates put a stamp on literary history, with its promise that:

In her new book, Postal Plots in British Fiction, 1840-1898: Readdressing Correspondence in Victorian Culture (Palgrave, 2013), Laura Rotunno, associate professor of English and honors coordinator, has identified the mid-1800s postal rate change in the United Kingdom as the turning point toward an increasingly educated middle class.

       Who wouldn't be intrigued ?
       See also the Palgrave publicity page, or get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.