Epistolary
adjective
Related to or suitable for letters or letter writing.
She practices an epistolary style in her novels.
Often appears as...
- epistolary form
- epistolary novel
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Formal
Literary
adjective
Used in or related to the writing of letters.
The epistolary tradition in literature is quite ancient.
Often appears as...
- epistolary correspondence
- epistolary exchange
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
adjective
Related to or suitable for letters or letter writing.
She practices an epistolary style in her novels.
Often appears as...
- epistolary form
- epistolary novel
Usage tips
Formal
Literary
adjective
Used in or related to the writing of letters.
The epistolary tradition in literature is quite ancient.
Often appears as...
- epistolary correspondence
- epistolary exchange
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Literary Device
Epistolary works use letters, diary entries, or other documents to tell a story.
Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' is an example of an epistolary novel.
Pro Tip 2/3Character Insight
Epistolary novels can provide deep insight into characters' thoughts and feelings.
In the epistolary sections, we learn secrets the characters don't tell anyone else.
Pro Tip 3/3Personal Touch
Epistolary writing often feels more personal, as if reading someone's private letters.
The epistolary style made me feel a direct connection to the protagonist's experiences.
Pro Tip 1/3Literary Device
Epistolary works use letters, diary entries, or other documents to tell a story.
Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' is an example of an epistolary novel.
Pro Tip 2/3Character Insight
Epistolary novels can provide deep insight into characters' thoughts and feelings.
In the epistolary sections, we learn secrets the characters don't tell anyone else.
Pro Tip 3/3Personal Touch
Epistolary writing often feels more personal, as if reading someone's private letters.
The epistolary style made me feel a direct connection to the protagonist's experiences.
Pro Tip 1/3Literary Device
Epistolary works use letters, diary entries, or other documents to tell a story.
Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' is an example of an epistolary novel.
Pro Tip 2/3Character Insight
Epistolary novels can provide deep insight into characters' thoughts and feelings.
In the epistolary sections, we learn secrets the characters don't tell anyone else.
Pro Tip 3/3Personal Touch
Epistolary writing often feels more personal, as if reading someone's private letters.
The epistolary style made me feel a direct connection to the protagonist's experiences.
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Quote examples
Jacqueline Woodson
American Writer
The epistolary form is one of the hardest to write. It's so hard to show something that's bigger in a letter. Plus, you have to have the balance of how many letters are going to work to tell the story and how few are going to make it fall apart.
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Isabella Bird
English Explorer
The Malays, like the Japanese, have a most rigid epistolary etiquette and set forms for letter writing. Letters must consist of six parts and are so highly elaborate that the scribes who indite them are almost looked upon as litterateurs.
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Sally Rooney
Irish Author
Dominant and emerging forms of interpersonal communication have to find their way into literary language somehow - think of the epistolary novels of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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Maria Semple
American Novelist
Where'd You Go, Bernadette' is an epistolary novel - one told in letters. I had no idea how much fun it would be, puzzling together the plot with letters and documents.
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Maria Semple
American Novelist
I love epistolary novels and became wildly excited when the form presented itself to me.
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Kristina McMorris
American Author
Letters From Home' is a story inspired by my grandparents' epistolary courtship.
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Jacqueline Woodson
American Writer
The epistolary form is one of the hardest to write. It's so hard to show something that's bigger in a letter. Plus, you have to have the balance of how many letters are going to work to tell the story and how few are going to make it fall apart.
Quote examples
Isabella Bird
English Explorer
The Malays, like the Japanese, have a most rigid epistolary etiquette and set forms for letter writing. Letters must consist of six parts and are so highly elaborate that the scribes who indite them are almost looked upon as litterateurs.
Quote examples
Sally Rooney
Irish Author
Dominant and emerging forms of interpersonal communication have to find their way into literary language somehow - think of the epistolary novels of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Quote examples
Maria Semple
American Novelist
Where'd You Go, Bernadette' is an epistolary novel - one told in letters. I had no idea how much fun it would be, puzzling together the plot with letters and documents.
Quote examples
Maria Semple
American Novelist
I love epistolary novels and became wildly excited when the form presented itself to me.
Quote examples
Kristina McMorris
American Author
Letters From Home' is a story inspired by my grandparents' epistolary courtship.
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