Girls and literacy in America : historical perspectives to the present / Jane Greer, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Greer, Jane, 1964-

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Education--United States--History--Sources.

Women.

Literacy--United States--History--Sources.

Literacy.

History.

Women--Education.

United States.

Genre:

Sources.

Physical Description:

xxxi, 379 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, [2003]

Summary:

Girls and Literacy in America offers a tour of the opportunities, obstacles, and achievements in girls' education from the limited possibilities of colonial days to the wide-open potential of the Internet generation.

Six essays, written by historians and focused on particular historical periods, examine the extensive range of girls' literacies in both educational and extracurricular settings. Girls from various ethnic and racial backgrounds, social classes, religions, and geographic areas of the nation are included. A host of primary documents, including such items as an 18th - century hornbook to excerpts from girls' "conversations" in Internet chat rooms, allow readers an opportunity to evaluate for themselves some of the materials mentioned in the volume's opening essays. And finally, an extensive bibliography will be invaluable to students expected to conduct more extensive primary research.

Contents:

Part 1 Historical Overview

1 The Uses of Literacy by Girls in Colonial America / E. Jennifer Monaghan 1

2 "A Few Patchwork Opinions": Piecing Together Narratives of U.S. Girls' Early National Schooling / Janet Carey Eldred, Peter Mortensen 23

3 Nineteenth-Century Girls and Literacy / Jean Ferguson Carr 51

4 Girls' Literacy in the Progressive Era: Female and American Indian Identity at the Genoa Indian School / Amy Goodburn 79

5 "That Cosmopolitan Feeling": Teenage Girls and Literacy, 1920-1970 / Kelly Schrum 103

6 Expanding Literacies at the End of the Twentieth Century: Girls, Writing, and Science Education / Lisa Weems, Paul Miller, Janet Russell, Andrea A. Lunsford 121

Part 2 Primary Documents

Instructional Materials 149

Hornbooks (ca. Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries) 149

The New-England Primer (1727) 149

The Teacher's Assistant in English Composition, John Walker (1801) 153

The Young Lady's Friend, Eliza W. R. Farrar (1836) 157

First Lessons in Composition, G. P. Quackenbos (1851) 164

The Lady's Guide to Perfect Gentility, Emily Thornwell (1856) 171

McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader, William McGuffey (1879) 177

"How to Keep a Journal," W. S. Jerome, St. Nicholas (1878) and "Keeping the Cream of One's Reading," Margaret Meredith, St. Nicholas (1886) 180

"Books for Varying Tastes," Sophie L. Goldsmith, American Girl (1932) 184

"Books for the Older Girls," Sallie W. Stewart, Girls' Guide (1933) 188

"Dear Diary" (1935) and "How to Be Popular Tho' Teacher's Pet" (1936), Elizabeth Woodward, Ladies' Home Journal 194

"Write a Better Book Review This Semester," Helen G. First, Seventeen (1960) 196

School Assignments 199

"Imperfections of Female Education," Albana C. Carson (1851), "Mystery," Eugenia Stout (1853), and "My Will," Ellen Riley (1856) 199

"Cotton," Mabel Davis (1915) and "From Field to Kitchen," Mamie Stewart (1915) 207

"The Circulation of the Blood" and "Surf Bathing," Frances Royster Williams (1915) 211

"All about Me," "Dear Ellen," and "What America Means to Me," Mary R. (ca. 1960s) 213

"Recommendation to Patient," Laura Griffith (pseudonym) (c. 1999-2000) 216

School Newspapers and Literary Societies 220

"Editorials," Prudence Withers, The School Paper (1898) 220

"The History of the Lygaeum," Priscilla Washington, Lincoln High School Annual (1904) 221

"The Mouse," Nettie Worth, Indian News (1907) 223

"Are You Building a House or Shack?" Doris Mae Wells, The Lincolnian (1916) 224

"Irresistable Charm," Alma Green, Coles Pilot (1937) 226

The Girls' League Gazette (1944) 227

Friendship Albums and Yearbooks 230

Friendship Album, Mary Virginia (Early) Brown (1840) 230

"Our Class History '07," Rosalie Sherman, Indian News (1907) and "Class History," Thelma M. Brinson, The Lincolnian (1925) 231

"Class Prophecy," Carrie Gipson and Hermena Clay, The Lincolnian (1922) 236

Signatures, Lucille Booth, The Tiger (1954) and Signatures, LouAnn Phelps, Clarion (1971) 241

Poetry and Short Stories 249

Reliquiae Turellae, et Lachrymae Paternae, Jane Turell, (Benjamin Colman) (1735) 249

"On Virtue" (1766), "To the University of Cambridge, in New-England" (1767), "On Being Brought from Africa to America" (1768), and "On the Death of a Young Lady of Five Years of Age" (1770), Phillis Wheatley 256

"Some Verses," Dora Read Goodale (1877) and "The Young Hunter," Florence E. Tyng, St. Nicholas (1879) 259

"Lines to My Classmates," Edna L. Turner, The Lincolnian (1920) 261

"Too Young," Grace Sibley, Saplings (1926) 262

"Sixteen," Maureen Daly, Saplings (1938) 263

"I Never Knew," Mary Betty Anderson, Young Voices (c. 1930s) 267

"My Plea," Mary Matsuzawa and "The Bend in the Road," June Moriwaki, Cactus Blossoms (1945) 268

"Awakening," Beth Hinds, Seventeen (1961) 269

"Busy Betty," Morgan Childs (2000) 276

"I Am," Lauren Cannell (2002) 277

Letters and Notes 278

A Girl's Life Eighty Years Ago, Eliza Southgate Bowne (1797-1802) 278

Letters of Mary L. Hood, Pearl Hobart, and Nettie Conine, St. Nicholas (1876-1878) 290

Letter Received by Mary Stuart (Robertson) Beard (1910) 293

Letters of L. A. and L. B. (c. 1930s) 294

E-mail to Miriam Forman-Brunell from Martina Tepper (2002) 298

Diaries 300

Diary of Anna GreenWinslow, edited by Alice Morse Earle (1772) 300

Diary, Elizabeth Ann Cooley McClure (1842-1844) 307

Diary, Helen Stewart (1853) 312

Diaries, Dorothy Allen Brown Thompson (1911-1914) 320

Anonymous Diary, High School Girl (1943) 330

Internet Diary, bacon4u (2002) 333.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-367) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

1576076660

OCLC:

51977825

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