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Author Kelley, Mary, 1943-

Title Learning to stand & speak : women, education, and public life in America's republic / Mary Kelley.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, [2008]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 294 pages) : illustrations, portraits.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia.
Note Reprint. Originally published: 2006.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- You will arrive at distinguished usefulness : the grounds for women's entry into public life -- The need of their genius : the rights and obligations of schooling -- Female academies are everywhere establishing : curriculum and pedagogy -- Meeting in this social way to search for truth : literary societies, reading circles, and mutual improvement associations -- The privilege of reading : women, books, and self-imagining -- Whether to make her surname More or Adams : women writing women's history -- The mind is, in a sense, its own home : gendered republicanism as lived experience -- Epilogue.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Women -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Women.
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Women -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Women in public life -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Women in public life.
Women in public life -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Women -- Education -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Women -- Education.
Women -- Education -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Chronological Term 1700-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Added Author Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.
University of North Carolina Press.
Spine Title Learning to stand and speak
Other Form: Print version: Kelley, Mary, 1943- Learning to stand & speak 9780807859216 (OCoLC)221141679
ISBN 9781469601182 (electronic book)
1469601184 (electronic book)
9780807859216
0807859214