... Josepha Hale was a big part of the movement of women education. Hale, as a successful and popular editor, was respected for middle-class women in matters of fashion, cooking, literature, and morality. In her work, she reinforced stereotypical gender roles, specifically domestic roles for women. Like most girls of the era, she received a limited education from family members and what she could teach herself ... the family was wealthy and they wanted their daughter(s) to being educated, governess was hired to teach girls. If they were lucky, they were taught to read in order to study the ...

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