Preliminary Bibliography

Key Issues:
Needle Work
Domestic Duties in the 18th Century
Women’s education in the 18th Century
Women’s roles in the 18th Century
Widows in the 18th Century
Boarding Schools

Works Cited:
Chambers, Jacqueline M. "'Thinking and Stitching, Stitching and Thinking': Needlework, American Women Writers, and Professionalism." Famine and fashion : needlewomen in the nineteenth century (2005): 171-184.

Kelley, Mary. Learning to stand & speak : women, education, and public life in America's republic. Williamsburg: Chapel Hill, 2006.

Martin, Theodora P. The sound of our own voices : women's study clubs 1860-1910 . Boston: Beacon Press, 1987.

Mays, Dorothy A. Women in early America : struggle, survival, and freedom in a new world. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2004.

Nash, Margaret A. Women's education in the United States, 1780-1840 . New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Winterer, Caroline. The mirror of antiquity : American women and the classical tradition, 1750-1900 . Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007.