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Amelia Earhart

as bloomers originated. Amelia and Muriel both were given bloomers and wore them. Amelia, according to her own recollections years later, admitted that they felt "free and athletic" although the girls were shunned by many of the other little girls in skirts.

Amelia Earhart was also influenced by her father's apparent indulgence in allowing his child to pursue unladylike activities. At the age of nine, Amelia and her sister both asked for and received footballs for Christmas along with boy's type sleds. Amelia the same year acquired a .22-caliper rifle to shoot rats in the barn. Edwin Earhart taught the girls how to fish as soon as they were old enough to cast a line in the water. Despite the constant pressure of money and Edwin Earhart being absent for long stretches, the girls grade school years were spent in active pursuit of fun and happiness.

Amelia Earhart's life was influenced by the books she read. In an essay she prepared for a librarians' meeting, Amelia Earhart despaired of the difference between girls' and boys' literature. Boys' books are full of adventure and heros. In girls' books "girls are not expected to join in the fun." She continued her observations with statements that female and male reactions to life are similar if their education is comparable; only society's expectations limit what a female can accomplish. These nontraditional activities and the influence of Amelia Earhart's Aunt Margaret foreshadowed what Amelia Earhart's life was to become.

The days of Amelia Earhart's happy childhood came to an end when the family moved to Des Moines. While in Kansas, the children had attended private school and belonged, through Mrs. Earhart's parents, to the aristocracy of the small town. In Des Moines, at the time they moved, there was no private school; Amelia and her sister were given instruction, by a tutor, at home for a year. The following year they attended the closest public school...

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