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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: 6612015675
  • ISBN: 9786612015670
  • ISBN: 9781282015678
  • ISBN: 1282015672
  • ISBN: 1607529394
  • ISBN: 9781607529392
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (xx, 303 pages)
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  • Publisher: Greenwich, Conn. : Information Age Pub., ©2004.

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General 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, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.
Restrictions on Access Note:
NLC staff and students only.
Language Note:
English.
Source of Description Note:
Print version record.
Subject: Osborne family -- Archives
Osborne family
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
United States -- Intellectual life -- 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
Genre: Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Archives.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

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