Nineteenth-Century Women Learn to Write

Contents: Introduction: cultures and practices of U.S. women's literacy / Catherine Hobbs Conduct books for women, 1830-1860: a rationale for women's conduct and domestic role in America / Jane E. Rose "In an atmosphere of peril": college women and their writing / Vickie Ricks "The voice, pen and influence of our women are abroad in the land": women and the Illinois State Normal University, 1857-1899 / Sandra D. Harmon "Let us strive earnestly to value education aright": Cherokee female seminarians as leaders of a changing culture / Devon A. Mihesuah His religion and hers in nineteenth-century hymnody / June Hadden Hobbs Writing in circles : Harriet Beecher Stowe, the Semi-Colon Club, and the construction of women's authorship / Nicole Tonkovich Literacy as a tool for social action among nineteenth-century African American women / Shirley Wilson Logan Mothers, daughters, diaries: literacy, relationship, and cultural context / Judy Nolte Temple and Suzanne L. Bunkers Women and the western military frontier: Elizabeth Bacon Custer / Maryan Wherry Cultural models of womanhood and female education : practices of colonization and resistance / P. Joy Rouse Silks, Congress gaiters, and rhetoric: a Butler University graduate of 1860 tells her story / Heidemarie Z. Weidner Radcliffe responses to Harvard rhetoric: "an absurdly stiff way of thinking" / Sue Carter Simmons Postscripts "A toast to Jerusha Jane Jones" "Is John smarter than I?" by Jerusha Jane Jones (Rockford Seminary magazine, 1875) Afterword: revealing the ties that bind? / JoAnn Campbell