Love and the Athenian Mercury: 1600s advice column still resonates

4/23/2025 By | David Nutt , Cornell Chronicle

Historian Mary Beth Norton found the perfect confluence of interests in a London periodical published from 1691-97 that answered readers’ questions about love and marriage.
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