Koradine. A Prophetic Story; Also, Creative Life, A special letter to young girls

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TitleKoradine. A Prophetic Story; Also, Creative Life, A special letter to young girls
Year for Search1889
AuthorsStockham, Alice B[unker] M.D.(1833-1912), and Talbot, Lida Hood
Date Published1889
PublisherAlice B. Stockham & Co.
Place PublishedChicago, IL
KeywordsFemale author, US author
Annotation

The book was designed to show the ideal growth and education of a girl from childhood to womanhood, including her sexual education. The novel, in letters from the girl Koradine, includes a description of an intentional community putting its ideals into practice. See the discussion in Beryl Satter, Each Mind a Kingdom: American Women, Sexual Purity, and the New Thought Movement (Berkeley: University of California Press, 138-45). 
Additional Publishers

Rpt. as Koradine Letters. A Girl’s Own Story. Chicago, IL: Alice B. Stockham & Co., 1893 without Creative Life. Some copies have one title on the cover and the other on the title page. Creative Life has been excised from all copies that I have been able to examine, but it was published separately Chicago, IL: Alice B. Stockham Co, 1896. It was then reprinted new, rev., and enl. ed. Illus. Bertha L. Corbett. Chicago, IL: The Progress Co., 1904 and partly concerns basic information on reproduction with illustrations of the uterus and the “mammary gland,” and partly on suitable activities for women, including occupations and exercise, with illustrations of the appropriate clothes. It is available at https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007683219. 
Info Notes

See the discussion in Beryl Satter, Each Mind a Kingdom: American Women, Sexual Purity, and the New Thought Movement (Berkeley: University of California Press, 138-45). 
Holding Institutions

Hathi, NN
Author Note

The female author (1833-1912) was an obstetrician and gynecologist who published Tokology: A Book for Every Woman (1886 with over twenty-five editions) on pregnancy, childbirth, and the care of infants, Karezza: Ethics of Marriage (1896), which advocated “coitus reservatus,” as practiced in the Oneida Community (See 1891 Miller).
Full Text

1889 Stockham, Alice B[unker], M.D. (1833-1912) and Lida Hood Talbot. Koradine. A Prophetic Story; Also, Creative Life, A special letter to young girls. Chicago, IL: Alice B. Stockham & Co. Rpt. as Koradine Letters. A Girl’s Own Story. Chicago, IL: Alice B. Stockham & Co., 1893 without Creative Life. Some copies have one title on the cover and the other on the title page. Creative Life has been excised from all copies that I have been able to examine, but it was published separately Chicago, IL: Alice B. Stockham Co, 1896. It was then reprinted new, rev., and enl. ed. Illus. Bertha L. Corbett. Chicago, IL: The Progress Co., 1904 and partly concerns basic information on reproduction with illustrations of the uterus and the “mammary gland,” and partly on suitable activities for women, including occupations and exercise, with illustrations of the appropriate clothes. It is available at https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007683219. Hathi, NN

The book was designed to show the ideal growth and education of a girl from childhood to womanhood, including her sexual education. The novel, in letters from the girl Koradine, includes a description of an intentional community putting its ideals into practice. See the discussion in Beryl Satter, Each Mind a Kingdom: American Women, Sexual Purity, and the New Thought Movement (Berkeley: University of California Press, 138-45). The female author was an obstetrician and gynecologist who published Tokology: A Book for Every Woman (1886 with over twenty-five editions) on pregnancy, childbirth, and the care of infants, Karezza: Ethics of Marriage (1896), which advocated “coitus reservatus,” as practiced in the Oneida Community (See 1891 Miller).