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Fictions of female education in the nineteenth century / Jaime Osterman Alves.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alves, Jaime Osterman.
- Series:
- American popular history and culture (Routledge (Firm))
- Studies in American popular history and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Education--United States--History--19th century.
- Women.
- American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Education in literature.
- Women in literature.
- Women--Education.
- History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 187 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2009.
- Contents:
- "Oh, I am homesick at the idea of a school and a master" : negotiating domestic education in Elizabeth Stoddard's The Morgesons
- To teach and to cure : medical interventions into female education and Oliver Wendell Holmes's Elsie Venner: a romance of destiny
- Reading, writing, and re-presenting : the newspaper and the schoolgirl in the Wreath of Cherokee rose buds and S. Alice Callahan's Wynema: a child of the forest
- "How shall we ever get out of slavery?" : Frances E.W. Harper's Trial and triumph and black female education in the post-reconstruction era
- Epilogue : telling tales out of school.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [165]-175) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415996761
- 0415996767
- OCLC:
- 259266307
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