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Reading and writing ourselves into being the literacy of certain nineteenth-century young women

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.

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  • ISBN: 9781593111090
  • ISBN: 1593111096
  • ISBN: 9781593111083
  • ISBN: 1593111088
  • ISBN: 1607529394 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 9781607529392 (electronic bk.)
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (xx, 303 p.)
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  • Publisher: Greenwich, Conn. : Information Age Pub., c2004.

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General Note:
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.
Based on author's thesis (doctoral)--Syracuse University.
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Syracuse University.
Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-288) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: 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.
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Subject: Young women -- Books and reading -- United States -- History -- 19th century
American letters -- History and criticism
Young women -- United States -- Language
Letter writing -- History -- 19th century
English language -- United States
Letter writing -- History -- 19th century
Young women -- United States -- Correspondence -- History and criticism
Young women -- United States -- Intellectual life
American letters -- History and criticism
English language -- 19th century
Young women -- Books and reading -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Literacy -- United States -- History -- 19th century
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters
Young women -- United States -- Language
Osborne family -- Archives
Young women -- United States -- Intellectual life
Frauenliteratur
Young women -- United States -- Correspondence -- History and criticism
LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Letters
Literacy -- United States -- History -- 19th century
United States -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
Osborne family -- Archives
USA
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