Title Reading and writing ourselves into being : the literacy of certain nineteenth-century young women / by Claire White Putala.

Publication Info.	Greenwich, Conn. : Information Age Pub., [2004]
	©2004

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Description	1 online resource (xx, 303 pages).
Series	Language, literacy, and learning
	Language, literacy, and learning.
Note	Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Syracuse University.
	Study of literacy based on a collection of correspondence, the Osborne Family Papers, 1812-1968, located in the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-288) and index.
Contents	Beginning to contextualize Eliza Wright Osborne in her literacy -- Wherein the problem is set -- Reading the writing of "the particular" : a methodology -- On their own: women reading (mostly) women -- Not on their own: mothers and men prescribe their reading -- Writing well : in search of "the particular" -- "Fixed very nicely indeed!" : a focus on gender -- Endings.
Summary	Study of literacy based on a collection of correspondence, the Osborne Family Papers, 1812-1968, located in the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	Osborne family -- Archives.
	American letters -- History and criticism.
	Young women -- United States -- Correspondence -- History and criticism.
	Young women -- Books and reading -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Literacy -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	United States -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
	Young women -- United States -- Intellectual life.
	Letter writing -- History -- 19th century.
	Young women -- United States -- Language.
	English language -- United States.
	English language -- 19th century.
	LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Letters.
	Frauenliteratur.
	United States.
	Osborne family -- Archives.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Putala, Claire White. Reading and writing ourselves into being. Greenwich, Conn. : Information Age Pub., ©2004 1593111088 (DLC) 2004000412 (OCoLC)54065519
ISBN	9781607529392 (electronic bk.)
	1607529394 (electronic bk.)

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