Abstract: American Women Novelists, Education, and Female Culture: 1790-1860
My Monroe research project will consider the influence of early American female writers on the education of women and female culture in America at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the...
View ArticleAmerican Novelists and Women’s Education: An Update
I began my research on American women novelists by identifying women who wrote during the time period of 1790-1860. These years encompass the period between the American Revolution and the Civil War. I...
View ArticleThe Life Lessons of Novels
In drafting my project’s conclusions, I initially focused on analyzing the different novels I read, concentrating on the lessons these novels taught early American women. The literary form of the novel...
View ArticleIntersections between Novels and Education
In addition to reading the works of early American woman novelists, I researched female academies and explored the connections between these academies and novels. Literacy, the rising production of...
View ArticleNineteenth-Century Novels and Female Education: Conclusions
During these last few weeks of my Monroe project, I shifted my focus from research to writing. I analyzed the novels I read, summarized my primary source material, and drafted my conclusions. It was...
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