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Mattingly, Carol.
"Uncovering Forgotten Habits: Anti-Catholic Rhetoric and Nineteenth-Century
American Women's Literacy." CCC 58.2 (2006): 160-181.
Abstract:
This article examines the
connection between religion and literacy efforts on behalf of girls and young
women in the early nineteenth-century United States by looking at the rapid
proliferation of Catholic convent academies and the anti-Catholic sentiment that
spurred the growth of proprietary academies, such as those of Mary Lyon and
Catharine Beecher. It also examines how religious rhetoric influenced the
curriculum in both Catholic and proprietor schools.
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