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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.

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

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 303 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Osborne family -- Archives.
Osborne family.
Genre/Form Archives.
Subject American letters -- History and criticism.
American letters.
Young women -- United States -- Correspondence -- History and criticism.
Young women.
United States.
Young women -- Books and reading -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Young women -- Books and reading.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Literacy -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Literacy.
United States -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
Intellectual life.
Young women -- United States -- Intellectual life.
Letter writing -- History -- 19th century.
Letter writing.
Young women -- United States -- Language.
English language -- United States.
English language.
English language -- 19th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
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
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