The myth of the self-made American highlighted the importance of childrearing and instructed women on the development of proper mental and moral habits in the young, but it also emphasized female self-reliance, as in Catharine Sedgwick's 1827 novel __________.
In
Abolition leaders believed that outspoken, assertive __________ were an embarrassment to the movement
In his 1841 essay
The __________ saw the birth of an organized women's rights movement.