Key Words & Preliminary Biography

Preliminary Bibliography
The Boarding School: Or, Lessons of a Preceptress to Her Pupils

“Propriety is that garb which becomes our situation and circumstances in life” (Foster 57).

Key Words:
“gender” and “fashion”
“gender” and “clothing”
“clothing” and “women”
“fashion” and “eighteenth century”
“female education”
“women" and "fashion" and "dress." limited by the time period (1790-1800)

Doak, Melissa, and Melissa Karetny.. "How Did Diverse Activists Shape the Dress Reform Movement, 1838-1881?." Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 3.0 (1999).

Finch, Martha L. "'Fashions of Worldly Dames: Separatist Discourses of Dress in Early Modern London, Amsterdam, and Plymouth Colony.” Church History 74.3 (2005): 494-533.
Kelly, Catherine E. In the New England Fashion: Reshaping Women's Lives in the Nineteenth Century. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999.

Kerber, Linda K. Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America. Chapel Hill: Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press, 1980.

Messer, Peter C. "Writing Women into History: Defining Gender and Citizenship in Post-Revolutionary America." Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture 28 (1999): 341-360.
Modestus. “On The Dress of Women.” Ladies Afternoon Visitor 1 (1807): 42

Octavius. “Affectation in Female Dress.” Weekly Visitory, or Ladies' Miscellany 2 (1804): 378.
Pettengill, Claire C. “Sisterhood in a Separate Sphere: Female Friendship in Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette and The Boarding School.” Early American Literature 27 (1992): 185-203.

Rush, Benjamin. “Thoughts Upon Female Education.” The Universal Asylum and Columbian Magazine (Apr.1790): 209.

Smith, Chloe Wigston. "Practical Habits: Clothes, Women, and Fashion in the Eighteenth-Century Novel." Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 67.9 (Mar. 2007): 3415-3415.