Reading and Writing Ourselves into Being : The Literacy of Certain Nineteenth-Century Young Women

Putala bases her study on a set of correspondence, the Osborne Family Papers, 1812-1968, housed in the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University.

She focuses on the period 1838-1862, drawing from about 300 letters primarily from the Wright/Mott/Osborne women.

Among the topics she pursues are contextualizing Eliza Wright Osborne in