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Please help keep this blog clean and searchable by reporting all dead links. Thank You, Mr. As Caleb looked on, his visage showed a growing depression, but when Fred handed him the paper he gave something like a snarl, and rapped the paper passionately with the back of his hand.

Bad work like this dispelled all Caleb's mildness. There is something more going on here than illegible handwriting -- university-educated Fred is planning to forgo a gentleman's occupation, and support himself in Caleb Garth's "business" in this case, estate management. Here Fred finds that, far from being over-educated, he is lacking a skill that his supposed social inferiors the "office clerks" have all mastered.

Garth's recommendation is that Fred sit up at night with a copy-book teaching himself how to write properly; until then, his work is useless.

This is why I was happy to find Handwriting in America never mind that Middlemarch is set in England -- it explains where these odd details come from. In short, there was a time when reading and writing were taught separately; when important people usually had secretaries to perform the physical act of writing for them; when writing was a specialized skill that was grouped pedagogically with business skills like accounting.

That's a horrible oversimplification, but it does give an idea of how different writing used to be, as a cultural activity, than it is now. And the reason that women's handwriting is supposed to be specially identifiable in 19th century novels, is that for upper-class women at this time, writing was pedagogically grouped with skills like embroidery and piano-playing.

It was an ornament. The dancing master would teach them how to dance and the writing master would teach them how to shape their letters prettily -- not in the same style used by clerks or gentlemen.

Thornton is interested not only in why people learned to write in certain ways, but in how people have thought about the act of writing. So this book is also a history of ideas about conformity, class, individuality, and the self. For example, people haven't always thought that it's possible to identify an individual by his or her handwriting. Today, most people take this for granted, and some people even think that a person's handwriting reveals aspects of his or her personality.

Thornton explains how this came about by patching together stories about educational theories, graphologists, autograph hunters, etc. I wasn't always entirely convinced by her overarching argument, but there's a lot of very interesting information to be learned along the way. Jan 10, Dave rated it liked it. There just aren't that many books out there on the history of handwriting, so this one is pretty much indispensable if you're into that sort of thing.

One suspects that is is a beefed-up version of the author's doctoral dissertation. Aug 03, Ray rated it really liked it. This is a very scholarly book about handwriting with many footnotes. Its not easy to read but the author has a summary at the end of each chapter.

I wish there were more illustrations of the different styles of handwriting. Aug 26, Charles rated it it was amazing Shelves: social-history. One of the two best books I know of on the topic also one of the only two books I know of on the topic.

My recollections of it may be benefitting from the nostalgia of having mislaid it. Nov 20, Dianna rated it it was ok.

I was hoping for an engaging narrative history. This was okay -- fun to flip through. Merry rated it liked it Mar 29, Bethany rated it it was ok Jan 19, Gatsby rated it liked it Apr 12, Chris rated it liked it Oct 01, Ray rated it liked it Jul 28, Paul Gier rated it really liked it Sep 07, Anna rated it it was amazing Oct 25, Jim Kukula rated it really liked it Mar 17, Aaron rated it it was amazing Feb 04, Mary Alice rated it really liked it May 13, Tricia Booksmostly rated it liked it May 05, John rated it really liked it Sep 25, Priscilla Herrington rated it really liked it Aug 12, Matthew rated it liked it Jan 23, Jesus rated it really liked it Feb 06, Gabriel rated it liked it Apr 12, Gwen rated it really liked it Jun 22, Michael Smith rated it it was amazing Sep 25, Abby Hall rated it liked it May 17, James Crabtree rated it it was amazing Jan 20, Frank Bray rated it it was amazing Dec 11, Ray rated it liked it Mar 27, Claire Suddath rated it liked it May 01, K rated it liked it Jul 19, There are no discussion topics on this book yet.

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