"Ethel's Love-Life" and Other Writings HISTORY / Asia / Korea Tracing this important but understudied

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"Ethel's Love-Life" and Other Writings HISTORY / Asia / Korea Tracing this important but understudiedIn a series of lengthy letters, the unsettled and unruly Ethel Sutherland writes to an initially unnamed and ungendered correspondent, and patiently discloses the troubled history of her past romantic attachments to both men and women. Not until the third letter does she reveal that her correspondent is Ernest, the man to whom she is engaged to be married. Wanting to make him understand how all of her past loves are included and sublimated in her love