Meanings of italic hand in English

What doomed the italic hand was the constant demand over the centuries for ever greater writing speed.

Mentions the six private schools Mr. Standard has converted to the italic hand, most recently the Chapin School.

He could tell from the deterioration of her normally neat italic hand that she was devastated and fighting hard to hold herself together.

Interview with Paul Standard who wishes to convert Americans from the Palmer Method & other latter-day styles of penmanship to the so-called italic hand.