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Author Putala, Claire White

Title Reading and writing ourselves into being : the literacy of certain nineteenth-century young women / by Claire White Putala
Published Greenwich, Conn. : Information Age Pub., ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 303 pages)
Series Language, literacy, and learning
Language, literacy, and learning.
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
Notes 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
Notes English
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Subject Osborne family -- Archives
SUBJECT Osborne family fast
Subject 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
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.
American letters
English language
Intellectual life
Letter writing
Literacy
Young women -- Books and reading
Frauenliteratur
SUBJECT United States -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
Subject United States
USA
Genre/Form Archives
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2004000412
ISBN 9781607529392
1607529394
1282015672
9781282015678
9786612015670
6612015675