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Title Girls and literacy in America : historical perspectives to the present / Jane Greer, editor.

Publication Info. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, [2003]
©2003

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 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  370.84 G    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  370.8 GIR c.2  Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  371.822 G525G    Check Shelf
Description xxxi, 379 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-367) and index.
Contents Historical overview. The uses of literacy by girls in colonial America / E. Jennifer Monaghan -- "A few patchwork opinions" : piecing together narratives of U.S. girls' early national schooling / Janet Carey Eldred, Peter Mortensen -- Nineteenth-century girls and literacy / Jean Ferguson Carr -- Girls' literacy in the progressive era : female and American Indian identity at the Genoa Indian School / Amy Goodburn -- "That cosmopolitan feeling" : teenage girls and literacy, 1920-1970 / Kelly Schrum -- Expanding literacies at the end of the twentieth century : girls, writing, and science education / Lisa Weems, Paul Miller, Janet Russell, and Andrea A. Lunsford -- Primary documents. Instructional materials : [textbooks, conduct literature, periodicals, and book lists]. Hornbooks (ca. sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries) -- The New-England primer (1727) -- The teacher's assistant in English composition / John Walker (1801) -- The young lady's friend / Eliza W. R. Farrar (1836) -- First lessons in composition / G. P. Quackenbos (1851) -- The lady's guide to perfect gentility / Emily Thornwell (1856) -- McGuffey's fifth eclectic reader / William McGuffey (1879) -- "How to keep a journal" / W. S. Jerome, St. Nicholas (1878) -- "Keeping the cream of one's reading" / Margaret Meredith, St. Nicholas (1886) -- "Books for varying tastes" / Sophia L. Goldsmith, American girl (1932) -- "Books for the older girls" / Sallie W. Stewart (1933) -- "Dear diary" / Elizabeth Woodward, Ladies' Home Journal (1935) -- "How to be popular tho' teacher's pet" / Elizabeth Woodward, Ladies' Home Journal (1936) -- "Write a better book review this semester" / Helen G. First, Seventeen (1960) -- School assignments. "Imperfections of female education" / Albana C. Carson (1851) -- "Mystery" / Eugenia Stout (1853) -- "My will" / Ellen Riley (1856) -- "Cotton" / Mabel Davis (1915) -- "From field to kitchen" / Mamie Stewart (1915) -- "The circulation of the blood" ; "Surf bathing" / "Frances Royster Williams (1915) -- "All about me" ; "Dear Ellen" ; "What America Means to Me" / Mary R. (ca. 1960s) -- "Recommendation to a patient" / Laura Griffith (pseudonym) (1999-2000) -- School newspapers and literary societies -- Friendship albums and yearbooks -- Poetry and short stories -- Letters and notes -- Diaries.
Subject Women -- Education -- United States -- History -- Sources.
Literacy -- United States -- History -- Sources.
Added Author Greer, Jane, 1964-
ISBN 1576076660 hardcover alkaline paper
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