Putala, Claire White

Reading and writing ourselves into being : the literacy of certain nineteenth-century young women / by Claire White Putala - Greenwich, Conn. : Information Age Pub., 2004 - xx, 303 p. ; 24 cm. - Language, literacy, and learning .

Based on 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

Includes bibliographical references and index

1593111096 (hbk.) RM292.27 1593111088 (pbk.)


Osborne family--Archives


American letters--History and criticism
Young women--Correspondence--History and criticism--United States
Young women--Books and reading--History--United States--19th century
Literacy--History--United States--19th century
Young women--Intellectual life--United States
Letter writing--History--19th century
Young women--Language--United States
English language--United States
English language--19th century


United States--Intellectual life--19th century