from The Write Event
from a review of Tamara Plakins Thornton's book Handwriting in America: A Cultural History; the review article also has some words about the Palmer method.
Monday, November 28, 2005
The Palmer Method
Karen asked about the Palmer Method, which is one explanation of why our grandmothers write alike. (If Foucault had grown up in the States he would have included the Method somewhere.) The Wikipedia entry describes in a little detail how this handwriting method was developed and taught in the US from the late nineteenth century into the 1960s. Here are some pics:
from The Write Event
from a review of Tamara Plakins Thornton's book Handwriting in America: A Cultural History; the review article also has some words about the Palmer method.
from The Write Event
from a review of Tamara Plakins Thornton's book Handwriting in America: A Cultural History; the review article also has some words about the Palmer method.
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