Carol Mattingly

Background

Carol Mattingly was born in 1945 in the United States.

Education

Carol Mattingly studied at the University of Louisville where she received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1992.

Career

Carol Mattingly started her career as an associate professor of English at Louisiana State University. Later she took up the same post at the University of Louisville. She published her first book Well-Tempered Women: Nineteenth-Century Temperance Rhetoric in 1998. Later she wrote such books as Appropriate[Ing] Dress: Women's Rhetorical Style in Nineteenth-Century America and Water Drops from Women Writers: A Temperance Reader. Her latest book Secret Habits: Catholic Literacy Education for Women in the Early Nineteenth Century was published in 2016. Mattingly also was a contributor to periodicals, including Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Rhetoric Review, Popular Culture Review, and Filson Club History Quarterly.

Achievements

• Carol Mattingly is an American writer who is famous for her books Well-Tempered Women and Appropriate[Ing] Dress. Her writing has won the Elizabeth A. Flynn Award.

Works

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  • Appropriate[Ing] Dress: Women's Rhetorical Style in Nineteenth-Century America

    (Carol Mattingly examines the importance of dress and appe...)

    2002
  • Water Drops from Women Writers: A Temperance Reader

    (The temperance movement was the largest single organizing...)

    2001
  • Secret Habits: Catholic Literacy Eucation for Women in the Early Nineteenth Century

    (Literacy historians have credited the Protestant mandate ...)

    2016
  • Well-Tempered Women: Nineteenth-Century Temperance Rhetoric 1998