| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.1

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Book Review

Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in America's Republic. By Mary Kelley. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xvi, 294 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3064-2.)
Toward the end of her life the great nineteenth-century women's rights orator Lucy Stone remembered gratefully that she had learned to "stand and speak" as a member of a literary society in college (p. 132). Mary Kelley, a cultural historian, has borrowed Stone's phrase for the title of her ambitious and fascinating book on women and education, broadly defined, in the postrevolutionary and antebellum periods.	1
Kelley has dug deeply into archives to research the intellectual and reading lives of women during the seven decades before the Civil War. Her book offers chapters on women's educational aspirations; the curricula and pedagogy at women's academies and seminaries; women's activities in literary societies inside and outside of school; reading circles and mutual improvement associations; the views of the authors of women's histories, including Judith Sargent Murray, Lydia Maria Child, Sarah Josepha Hale, and Margaret Fuller; the opinions of women, including teachers and students, on those books; and the struggles of learned women to balance reading with domestic responsibilities.	. . .

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