Gender and writing instruction in early America: Lessons from didactic fictionFootnote¹

We wish to thank our colleague Don Ringe, who directed us to eighteenth‐century sources; Dennis Baron for his insights into early American language politics; Gesa Kirsch for her suggestions concerning feminist histories of education; Barbara Tomlinson and Davina Warner for their help with the draft of this essay; and our reviewers, Winifred Horner and Andrea Lunsford, whose kind words made revision easier.

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