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 Contents Preface ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction: Between Cupid and Minerva 1 1. “More like a Pleasure than a Study”: Women’s Educational Experiences 18 2. “Various Subjects That Passed between Two Young Ladies of America”: Reconstructing Female Friendship 42 3. “The Social Family Circle”: Family Matters 67 4. “The Union of Reason and Love”: Courtship Ideals and Practices 90 5. “The Sweet Tranquility of Domestic Endearment”: Companionate Marriage 116 6. “So Material a Change”: Revisiting Republican Motherhood 139 Conclusion: Education, Equality, or Difference 164 List of Archives 171 Notes 175 Index 223 ...

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