Most of these were from the last quarter or so of the 19th-century with some extending into the 20th. From my own collection I can find Spencerian, Zanerian, Palmer, Natural Slant, Modified Slant, Vertical Writing, Business Writing, and Modern Writing. You can see the evidence of the more popular ones in the names of steel pens (nibs) sold for those styles. Not so sure about anywhere else, but during the golden age of American Penmanship (about 1820 to 1930 or so), Americans applied their distinctive gift for marketing and came up with dozens if not hundreds of different handwriting "methods" and styles. So, if you were to teach a small child some form of cursive writing, which would you choose? I'm leaning toward teaching cursive Italic, since I am familiar with it or both of us learning Spencerian/business writing together which might be fun (or not!). Spencerian would really be business hand and it is really popular in the homeschooling community (as is cursive Italic). For that, I would look at Michael Sull's work which is for older kids, we could go slow. But American cursive is closer to what she would learn in school if the school does teach cursive. The question is, which type of cursive do I start her on? I can do cursive Italic and there's a whole program for children put together by Getty Dubay. So, I am inclined to start her with cursive, particular since her pretend writing is all cursive-like, in that it's sort of like long, connected zig-zags all across the page. I'm hoping to get her into a local Montessori school (K-8) but if I don't, public school will almost assuredly teach her print. Most people start teaching their children "print" (ball and stick) letters at this point, but some Montessori schools (and maybe Waldorf?) start the kids with cursive letters right away (usually Danerian as far as I can tell). My four year old daughter has been interested in "pretend writing" (scribbles) for awhile, now, but has recently begun to be interested in making "real" letters.
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