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An exploration of the fascinating and controversial history of girls' education in America from the colonial era to the computer age. Girls and Literacy in America offers a tour of 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.

• Acknowledgmentsp. xi
• Introductionp. xv
• Historical Overview
• The Uses of Literacy by Girls in Colonial Americap. 1
• "A Few Patchwork Opinions": Piecing Together Narratives of U.S. Girls' Early National Schoolingp. 23
• Nineteenth-Century Girls and Literacyp. 51
• Girls' Literacy in the Progressive Era: Female and American Indian Identity at the Genoa Indian Schoolp. 79
• "That Cosmopolitan Feeling": Teenage Girls and Literacy, 1920-1970p. 103
• Expanding Literacies at the End of the Twentieth Century: Girls, Writing, and Science Educationp. 121
• Primary Documents
• Instructional Materialsp. 149
• Hornbooks (ca. Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries)p. 149
• The New-England Primer (1727)p. 149
• The Teacher's Assistant in English Composition, John Walker (1801)p. 153
• The Young Lady's Friend, Eliza W. R. Farrar (1836)p. 157
• First Lessons in Composition, G. P. Quackenbos (1851)p. 164
• The Lady's Guide to Perfect Gentility, Emily Thornwell (1856)p. 171
• McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader, William McGuffey (1879)p. 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)p. 180
• "Books for Varying Tastes," Sophie L. Goldsmith, American Girl (1932)p. 184
• "Books for the Older Girls," Sallie W. Stewart, Girls' Guide (1933)p. 188
• "Dear Diary" (1935) and "How to Be Popular Tho' Teacher's Pet" (1936), Elizabeth Woodward, Ladies' Home Journalp. 194
• "Write a Better Book Review This Semester," Helen G. First, Seventeen (1960)p. 196
• School Assignmentsp. 199
• "Imperfections of Female Education," Albana C. Carson (1851), "Mystery," Eugenia Stout (1853), and "My Will," Ellen Riley (1856)p. 199
• "Cotton," Mabel Davis (1915) and "From Field to Kitchen," Mamie Stewart (1915)p. 207
• "The Circulation of the Blood" and "Surf Bathing," Frances Royster Williams (1915)p. 211
• "All about Me," "Dear Ellen," and "What America Means to Me," Mary R. (ca. 1960s)p. 213
• "Recommendation to Patient," Laura Griffith (pseudonym) (c. 1999-2000)p. 216
• School Newspapers and Literary Societiesp. 220
• "Editorials," Prudence Withers, The School Paper (1898)p. 220
• "The History of the Lygaeum," Priscilla Washington, Lincoln High School Annual (1904)p. 221
• "The Mouse," Nettie Worth, Indian News (1907)p. 223
• "Are You Building a House or Shack?" Doris Mae Wells, The Lincolnian (1916)p. 224
• "Irresistable Charm," Alma Green, Coles Pilot (1937)p. 226
• The Girls' League Gazette (1944)p. 227
• Friendship Albums and Yearbooksp. 230
• Friendship Album, Mary Virginia (Early) Brown (1840)p. 230
• "Our Class History '07," Rosalie Sherman, Indian News (1907) and "Class History," Thelma M. Brinson, The Lincolnian (1925)p. 231
• "Class Prophecy," Carrie Gipson and Hermena Clay, The Lincolnian (1922)p. 236
• Signatures, Lucille Booth, The Tiger (1954) and Signatures, LouAnn Phelps, Clarion (1971)p. 241
• Poetry and Short Storiesp. 249
• Reliquiae Turellae, et Lachrymae Paternae, Jane Turell, (Benjamin Colman) (1735)p. 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 Wheatleyp. 256
• "Some Verses," Dora Read Goodale (1877) and "The Young Hunter," Florence E. Tyng, St. Nicholas (1879)p. 259
• "Lines to My Classmates," Edna L. Turner, The Lincolnian (1920)p. 261
• "Too Young," Grace Sibley, Saplings (1926)p. 262
• "Sixteen," Maureen Daly, Saplings (1938)p. 263
• "I Never Knew," Mary Betty Anderson, Young Voices (c. 1930s)p. 267
• "My Plea," Mary Matsuzawa and "The Bend in the Road," June Moriwaki, Cactus Blossoms (1945)p. 268
• "Awakening," Beth Hinds, Seventeen (1961)p. 269
• "Busy Betty," Morgan Childs (2000)p. 276
• "I Am," Lauren Cannell (2002)p. 277
• Letters and Notesp. 278
• A Girl's Life Eighty Years Ago, Eliza Southgate Bowne (1797-1802)p. 278
• Letters of Mary L. Hood, Pearl Hobart, and Nettie Conine, St. Nicholas (1876-1878)p. 290
• Letter Received by Mary Stuart (Robertson) Beard (1910)p. 293
• Letters of L. A. and L. B. (c. 1930s)p. 294
• E-mail to Miriam Forman-Brunell from Martina Tepper (2002)p. 298
• Diariesp. 300
• Diary of Anna GreenWinslow, edited by Alice Morse Earle (1772)p. 300
• Diary, Elizabeth Ann Cooley McClure (1842-1844)p. 307
• Diary, Helen Stewart (1853)p. 312
• Diaries, Dorothy Allen Brown Thompson (1911-1914)p. 320
• Anonymous Diary, High School Girl (1943)p. 330
• Internet Diary, bacon4u (2002)p. 333
• Referencesp. 337
• Bibliographyp. 341
• About the Contributorsp. 369
• Indexp. 371