Learning to read and write in Colonial America
By: E. Jennifer Monaghan.
Series: Studies in print culture and the history of the book
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press; American Antiquarian Society
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Amherst; Worcester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 491
Subjects: Literacy -- United States -- History -- 17th century.; Literacy -- United States -- History -- 18th century.; Books and reading -- United States -- History -- 17th century.; Books and reading -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Literacy and the law in orthodox New England; title: Literacy and the Indians of Massachusetts Bay; title: Books read by children at home and at school; title: Death and literacy in two devout Boston families; title: The literacy mission of the S.P.G; title: Literacy and the Mohawks; title: Schools, schoolteachers, and schoolchildren; title: The rise of the spelling book; title: Literacy instruction and the enslaved; title: Writing instruction; title: The new world of children's books; title: Literacy in three families of the 1770s.