Fictions of female education in the nineteenth century / Jaime Osterman Alves.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-175) and index.

"Oh, I am homesick at the idea of a school and a master" : negotiating domestic education in Elizabeth Stoddard`s The Morgesons -- To teach and to cure : medical interventions into female education and Oliver Wendell Holmes`s Elsie Venner: a romance of destiny -- Reading, writing, and re-presenting : the newspaper and the schoolgirl in the Wreath of Cherokee rose buds and S. Alice Callahan`s Wynema: a child of the forest -- "How shall we ever get out of slavery?" : Frances E.W. Harper`s Trial and triumph and black female education in the post-reconstruction era -- Epilogue : telling tales out of school.