Reading and writing ourselves into being : the literacy of certain nineteenth-century young women

Bok av Claire White Putala
Putala bases her study on a set of correspondence, the Osborne Family Papers, 1812-1968, housed in the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University. She focuses on the period 1838-1862, drawing from about 300 letters primarily from the Wright/Mott/Osborne women. Among the topics she pursues are contextualizing Eliza Wright Osborne in