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There are identifiable differences in male and female published literary writing in this period.

This space may be characterized by a more personal, emotive and interactive frame that is not explained by differences in genre or period.

Closer use rates of ami*/amour*/aim* in the small sample of correspondance suggests differences arise in the act of publication as opposed to more general writing/representation.

The public female writing space developed in this period may be characterized by the intentional use of words without changes in their meanings.

Implication: word meaning itself is gender neutral and not significantly modified by creation of this space. May suggest that there is no such thing as "patriarchcal language" embedded in word meaning/language (my earlier Foucauldian position).

Alternatively, may indicate that patriarchcal is so powerful and pervasive as to be impossible to overcome and so must be subverted by other means.
[Or my current methods are too weak to detect a difference.]

The call for a prospective écriture féminine would need to examine past practice and determine the mechanisms by which this space was established in difference languages and periods.

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