Clifford, Geraldine Jonçich, author.
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.
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Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• It is well that women should be unlettered : before teaching school was women’s work — School dames in each quarter : America’s army of Gertrudes — A sisterhood of instruction, essential to the world’s progress : societal pressures and women’s opportunities, 1700-1900 — Overflowing from the domestic circle : individual and family factors in choosing to teach — An honorable breadwinning weapon : who became teachers? — The presiding genius of his home and heart : her marital status and domestic arrangements — In the mind’s eye : images and expectations of the teacher — Higher prospects for a useful life : the teacher as trained professional — Laboring conscientiously, though perhaps obscurely : certain realities of being a teacher — The great perplexities of the teacher-life : Gertrudes talk and their pupils reminisce — That our daughters may be as cornerstones : women teachers and Messianic America — The feast of reason and flow of soul : the political rights and civic duties of women — A lady well qualified to show the way : widening women’s work.

Subjects:

• Women teachers — United States — History.
• Women teachers — United States — Social conditions.

Requested by Kurpiers, R.