Girls and literacy in America: historical perspectives to the present

Pt. 1. Historical Overview

1. Uses of Literacy by Girls in Colonial America / E. Jennifer Monaghan

2. "A Few Patchwork Opinions": Piecing Together Narratives of U.S. Girls' Early National Schooling / Janet Carey Eldred and Peter Mortensen

3. Nineteenth-Century Girls and Literacy / Jean Ferguson Carr

4. Girls' Literacy in the Progressive Era: Female and American Indian Identity at the Genoa Indian School / Amy Goodburn

5. "That Cosmopolitan Feeling": Teenage Girls and Literacy, 1920-1970 / Kelly Schrum

6. Expanding Literacies at the End of the Twentieth Century: Girls, Writing, and Science Education / Lisa Weems, Paul Miller, Janet Russell and Andrea A. Lunsford

Pt. 2. Primary Documents

Hornbooks (ca. Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries)

New-England Primer (1727)

Teacher's Assistant in English Composition, John Walker, (1801)

Young Lady's Friend, Eliza W. R. Farrar (1836)

First Lessons in Composition, G. P. Quackenbos (1851)

Lady's Guide to Perfect Gentility, Emily Thornwell (1856)

McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader, William McGuffey (1879)

"How to Keep a Journal," W. S. Jerome, St. Nicholas (1878) and "Keeping the Cream of One's Reading," Margaret Meredith, St. Nicholas (1886)

"Books for Varying Tastes," Sophie L. Goldsmith, American Girl (1932)

"Books for the Older Girls," Sallie W. Stewart, Girls' Guide (1933)

"Dear Diary" (1935) and "How to Be Popular Tho' Teacher's Pet" (1936), Elizabeth Woodward, Ladies' Home Journal

"Write a Better Book Review This Semester," Helen G. First, Seventeen (1960)

"Imperfections of Female Education," Albana C. Carson (1851), "Mystery," Eugenia Stout (1853), and "My Will," Ellen Riley (1856)

"Cotton," Mabel Davis (1915) and "From Field to Kitchen," Mamie Stewart (1915)

"The Circulation of the Blood" and "Surf Bathing," Frances Royster Williams (1915)

"All about Me," "Dear Ellen," and "What America Means to Me," Mary R. (ca. 1960s)

"Recommendation to Patient," Laura Griffith (pseudonym) (c. 1999-2000)

"Editorials," Prudence Withers, The School Paper (1898)

"The History of the Lygaeum," Priscilla Washington, Lincoln High School Annual (1904)

"The Mouse," Nettie Worth, Indian News (1907)

"Are You Building a House or Shack?" Doris Mae Wells, The Lincolnian (1916)

"Irresistable Charm," Alma Green, Coles Pilot (1937)

Girls' League Gazette (1944)

Friendship Album, Mary Virginia (Early) Brown (1840)

"Our Class History '07," Rosalie Sherman, Indian News (1907) and "Class History," Thelma M. Brinson, The Lincolnian (1925)

"Class Prophecy," Carrie Gipson and Hermena Clay, The Lincolnian (1922)

Signatures, Lucille Booth, The Tiger (1954) and Signatures, LouAnn Phelps, Clarion (1971)

Reliquiae Turellae, et Lachrymae Paternae, Jane Turell, (Benjamin Colman) (1735)

"On Virtue" (1766), "To the University of Cambridge, in New-England" (1767), "On Being Brought from Africa to America" (1768), and "On the Death of a Young Lady of Five Years of Age" (1770), Phillis Wheatley

"Some Verses," Dora Read Goodale (1877) and "The Young Hunter," Florence E. Tyng, St. Nicholas (1879)

"Lines to My Classmates," Edna L. Turner, The Lincolnian (1920)

"Too Young," Grace Sibley, Saplings (1926)

"Sixteen," Maureen Daly, Saplings (1938)

"I Never Knew," Mary Betty Anderson, Young Voices (c. 1930s)

"My Plea," Mary Matsuzawa and "The Bend in the Road," June Moriwaki, Cactus Blossoms (1945)

"Awakening," Beth Hinds, Seventeen (1961)

"Busy Betty," Morgan Childs (2000)

"I Am," Lauren Cannell (2002)

Girl's Life Eighty Years Ago, Eliza Southgate Bowne (1797-1802)

Letters of Mary L. Hood, Pearl Hobart, and Nettie Conine, St. Nicholas (1876-1878)

Letter Received by Mary Stuart (Robertson) Beard (1910)

Letters of L. A. and L. B. (c. 1930s)

E-mail to Miriam Forman-Brunell from Martina Tepper (2002)

Diary of Anna Green Winslow, edited by Alice Morse Earle (1772)

Diary, Elizabeth Ann Cooley McClure (1842-1844)

Diary, Helen Stewart (1853)

Diaries, Dorothy Allen Brown Thompson (1911-1914)

Anonymous Diary, High School Girl (1943)

Internet Diary, bacon4u (2002).