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The History of Fandom, 1700-1900 (Live)

You're Dead to Me

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Women in the Nineteenth Century Write Fan Male

Fan letters are a way of exploring your own identity and emulating someone whm you can follow. There's a reason why young people, particularly write fan male. Women in this time didn't have a lot of creative outlet in the same way as men did. Through phantom, kind of seeing that could possibly be me and imagining themselves in that position. Eyaws to impel me. I would be thrilled if people asked me things. I had absolutely no specialization. But lots lots of the nineteenth century found ma was the same.

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