OOPS!

I think I uplaoded my first blog in the wrong blog! So hopefully this time I can reupload my blog in the correct location.

I am going to blog about The Boarding School by Hannah Foster. Currently I am alone, I am waiting for the others who are doing this book to invite me to join their group. I chose this novel because I went to boarding school and am interested to compare the too, love Foster’s writings, and becasue I want to work with education. This novel was published in Boston in 1798 which makes sense because that is around the time where the first female boarding school appeared in America. The American boarding school also began in the northeast where it remains the most prominent. During this time, every female boarding school was a finishing school. The first female boarding school in America to focus primarily on women’s education will not appear until the early 1900s. I am interested to see how much education Foster discusses compared to aspects that would make a graduate ‘finished,' and furthermore what her interpretation of finished is. I also look forward to reading other blogs that focus on young female characters of the time, so I can compare how the boarding school girl was considered ‘different’ in the 1700s. When the boarding school I attended opened in 1911, the head mistress kept a journal (which I read) of the first years with the students and the difficulties they originally faced. I am interested to see if any similarities will occur. While reading her journal I realized that many of the traditions we celebrated came from events that occurred during those first years, I am curious to see if Foster will unknowingly add some of her traditions in the letters as well.I tried uploading the cover of the novel to this blog but it was too large!