Secret Habits: Catholic Literacy Education for Women in the Early Nineteenth Century

by Carol Mattingly

Literacy historians have credited the Protestant mandate to read scripture, as well as Protestant schools, for advances in American literacy. This belief, however, has overshadowed other important efforts and led to an incomplete understanding of our literacy history. In Secret Habits: Catholic Literacy Education for Women in the Early Nineteenth Century , Carol Mattingly restores the work of Catholic nuns and sisters to its rightful place in literacy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809334925
• ISBN13: 9780809334926
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.0"