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A.J. Graves
Birth: unknown
Death: unknown
Biography
Mrs. A.J. Graves was a mid-nineteenth-century female author. Little is known about her, except that she echoed Catharine Beecher's themes in her work. She saw women as an "uplifting force within households." She criticized male arrogance and complacency. She supported the idea of the "newly enlightened domestic woman, the last "custodian of civilization." Mrs. Graves wrote conduct-of-life books. Her books characterized the home as woman's appropriate sphere and a place for them to foster religion, uprightness, and virtue. Her book, Woman in America, represented these themes.
It is possible that "Mrs. A.J. Graves" was a pseudonym.
Her books include:
Women in America: Being an Examination Into the Moral and Intellectual Condition of American Female Society. (First published in 1841)
Girlhood and Womanhood, or Sketches of My Schoolmates. (First published in 1844)
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Mrs. A.J. Graves was a mid-nineteenth-century female author. Little is known about her, except that she echoed Catharine Beecher's themes in her work. She saw women as an "uplifting force within households." She criticized male arrogance and complacency. She supported the idea of the "newly enlightened domestic woman, the last "custodian of civilization." Mrs. Graves wrote conduct-of-life books. Her books characterized the home as woman's appropriate sphere and a place for them to foster religion, uprightness, and virtue. Her book, Woman in America, represented these themes.
It is possible that "Mrs. A.J. Graves" was a pseudonym.
Her books include:
Women in America: Being an Examination Into the Moral and Intellectual Condition of American Female Society. (First published in 1841)
Girlhood and Womanhood, or Sketches of My Schoolmates. (First published in 1844)