John Jenkins and <i>The Art of Writing:</i> Handwriting and Identity in the Early American Republic
Richard S. Christen
Author of the first truly American handwriting book (1791), John Jenkins introduced an innovative pedagogy that, he promised, would make elegant “plain and easy” for all. Fusing old with new, argued that synthesis–gentility opportunity, aesthetics utility, hand mind–would come to define identity in early republic.
The New England Quarterly