Family Literacy in Early 18th-Century Boston: Cotton Mather and His Children.

Monaghan, E. Jennifer

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Publication Date: 1991

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Family Literacy in Early 18th-Century Boston: Cotton Mather and His Children.

Monaghan, E. Jennifer

Reading Research Quarterly, v26 n4 p342-70 1991

Offers a naturalistic picture of literacy in colonial North America by exploring family literacy in an early eighteenth-century urban New England setting. Uses the diaries and other writings of Cotton Mather (1663-1728) as sources on literacy within his family. Notes the importance of writing within the family. (SR)

Descriptors: Eighteenth Century Literature, Family Relationship, Literacy, Reading Research, United States History, Writing (Composition), Writing Research

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Language: English

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