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Assignment:
1. Identify the essay topic "The Sweet Girl Graduate" and early feminism by Sarah Anne Curzon (Theatre History/ Form and Content)
2. Identify whether you are writing a "theatre history" or "form and content" essay
3. Identify your chosen argument in only one or two sentences *the argument is expected to be preliminary
4. Identify what evidence you will use to support your argument from all of your sources
5. Make a brief statement about why you think your argument matters
*the argument is a claim to hold a particular point of view that can be defended with evidence from your research
Sources to be used:
1. Curzon, Sarah Anne. Laura Secord, the Heroine of 1812 a Drama ; and Other Poems. Blacket Robinson, 1887.
2. Curzon, Sarah Anne. "The Sweet Girl Graduate." The Grip Sacks, vol. 1, 1882.
3. D'Costa, Janet. "The Sweet Girl Graduate" by Sarah Anne Curzon: A Reflection of the Feminist Movement of the 1800s. Women's Studies Journal, vol. 22, 2006, pp. 17-24.
4. Jackson, Margaret. "Sarah Anne Curzon: A Forgotten Feminist." The Canadian Historical Review, vol. 59, no. 1, 1978, pp. 71-82.
5. Kishkan, Mary Elizabeth. "The Sweet Girl Graduate: The Education of Women in Late 19th Century Canada." Canadian Women's Studies, vol. 27, no. 1, 2007, pp. 63-66.
6. Lightman, Marlene. "Sarah Anne Curzon: An Early Canadian Feminist Voice." Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 7, no. 4, 1987, pp. 13-17.
7. McMullen, Lorraine. "Sarah Anne Curzon: A Nineteenth-Century Canadian Feminist." Canadian Historical Review, vol. 74, no. 1, 1993, pp. 31-51.
8. Poulin, Annie. "The Sweet Girl Graduate: Sarah Anne Curzon and Early Canadian Feminism." Canadian Women's Studies, vol. 27, no. 1, 2007, pp. 57-62.
9. Rutherford, Paul. "Sarah Anne Curzon: The Canadian Feminist." Canadian Historical Review, vol. 64, no. 2, 1983, pp. 166-181.
10. Tucker, Ruth A. "Sarah Anne Curzon: A Canadian Feminist." Victorian Studies, vol. 28, no. 4, 1985, pp. 471-487.
Suggestions- The thesis of the argumentative essay should be:
- a complete, unified statement about the issue in contention
- narrow enough to limit the material
- general enough to need support
- defensible
- not too obvious