Talk:Anna Green Winslow

{DYK talk|17 July|2012|entry=... that Anna Green Winslow wrote a series of letters to her mother that she combined into a diary, which provides a rare window into the life of an affluent teenage girl in colonial Boston?}}

Female Literacy
It might be a case of the exception proving the rule, but at least in the greater Boston area, there are several examples of women writing and reading and speaking publicly, so the line "forced to scribble their initials" sounds a bit too "poor-me" for me. In fact, other documentation I've seen suggests that, based on the ratio of signatures to "x's" in legal documents, it's possible that the NE colonies had something in the range of a 70-90% literacy rate, women included. (Spelling variants should not be read as examples of poor literacy, since standardized spelling was something that was only later observed, beginning in the late 18th/early 19th c., also.)108.20.74.63 (talk) 17:38, 5 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks for pointing this out. I don't think the sentence in question is necessarily inconsistent with what you describe, though. "It was common ... for even wealthy women to be unable to sign their own names" is not quite the same as "most women, even wealthy ones, were unable to sign their own names". So for example, if one woman in three could not sign their own name, that might seem a very common rate of illiteracy by our standards; but would still be consistent with plenty of properly signed documents existing (and most women being literate).


 * It would be interesting to see exactly what wording the source uses; and also if there are other sources discussing female literacy in this period that give a different account or emphasis. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 23:58, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

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