Woman's "true" profession : voices from the history of teaching /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hoffman, Nancy
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard Education Press, 2003.
Edition:2nd ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Seminary for social power : the classroom becomes woman's sphere.
  • Pioneering the education of young women : autobiography / Emma Hart Willard.
  • Teaching in the little red schoolhouse / Lucia B. Downing.
  • Remedy for wrongs to women : address / Catherine Beecher.
  • "Civilizing" the West : letters from teachers on the frontier.
  • Preparing to teach : a journal / Mary Swift.
  • The schoolmarm : a short story / Anna Fuller
  • A noble work done earnestly : Yankee schoolmarms in the Civil War South.
  • Missionary maidens : a sketch / Mary Clemmer Ames.
  • In spite of threats : selected letters on setting up new schools.
  • From northern home to southern dangers : autobiography / Maria S. Waterbury.
  • Photo feature : Missus comes fur larn we!
  • Sisters in the service : correspondence / Sarah Chase, Lucy Chase, Julia Rutledge.
  • Hard work every day : a New England woman's diary in Dixie / Mary Ames.
  • A black teacher goes South : journal and essay / Charlotte L. Forten.
  • Photo feature : sisterhood of service.
  • Emancipation's primer : the Freedmen's book / Lydia Maria Child.
  • New rules for black and white : autobiography / Elizabeth Hyde Botume.