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Title:

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

Edition:

2nd ed.

Publisher:

Harvard Education Press,

Copyright Date:

2003

Description:

xi, 340 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Women teachers--United States--History.

Other Authors:

Hoffman, Nancy,

Notes:

Includes index.

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.

ISBN:

9781891792151 (lib. ed.)
1891792156 (lib. ed.)
9781891792137 (pbk.)
189179213X (pbk.)
9780912670935
0912670932

OCLC:

(OCoLC)53783962

Locations:

O4AX446 -- Chadwick Library

OYAX081 -- Boone Campus Library (Boone)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

OAAX516 -- Maharishi University of Management Library (Fairfield)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PHAX277 -- Graceland University - Frederick Madison Smith Library (Lamoni)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)