Periodical Index Detail
Trend & Tradition
| Title | By the Book: How Novels Filled Intellectual Voids in the Lives of Colonial Women |
| Issue | Volume 02, Number 02 (T&T, Spring 2017) |
| Description | The early 18th c. limitations of access to books and libraries reflected the prevailing beliefs that women's subordinate status, instituted by divine and natural law, best suited then to domestic duties rather than intellectual achievement. The growtrh of evangelical Christianity opened an intellectual window for women in both reading and writing, and the novel expanded 18th c. horizons. |
| Author | Kerrison, Catherine |
| Pages | 78-84 |