An American Teacher in Argentina: Mary Gorman's Nineteenth-Century Odyssey from New Mexico to the Pampas

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Book Review| November 01 2017 An American Teacher in Argentina: Mary Gorman's Nineteenth-Century Odyssey from New Mexico to the Pampas An American Teacher in Argentina: Mary Gorman's Nineteenth-Century Odyssey from New Mexico to the Pampas. By Peard, Julyan G.. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2016. Photographs. Figure. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xi, 283 pp. Cloth, $75.00. Celia López-Chávez Celia López-Chávez University of New Mexico Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Hispanic American Historical Review (2017) 97 (4): 762–763. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-4214576 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Celia López-Chávez; An American Teacher in Argentina: Mary Gorman's Nineteenth-Century Odyssey from New Mexico to the Pampas. Hispanic American Historical Review 1 November 2017; 97 (4): 762–763. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-4214576 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsHispanic American Historical Review Search Advanced Search The daughter of a Baptist minister father and a teacher mother, Mary Elizabeth Gorman was born in Ohio in 1843 and lived five years of her childhood (from 1852 to 1857) in Laguna Pueblo, New Mexico, where her father was sent to start a mission. She learned Spanish and some Keres. When she was 14 years old she moved to New York to study at the Hamilton Female Seminary in order to become a teacher. Although her father's dream was for Mary to return to New Mexico to teach, in 1863 she accepted an invitation to teach in Argentina by Domingo F. Sarmiento, then governor of the province of San Juan and later president of the nation. She would spend the rest of her life in that country.Julyan Peard effectively chose to write a biography within the framework of the transnational... Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press2017 You do not currently have access to this content.