How Young Ladies Became Girls: The Victorian Origins of American Girlhood

by Jane Hunter and Professor Jane Hunter

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Based on an extraordinary array of diaries and letters, this engaging book explores the shifting experiences of adolescent girls in the late nineteenth century. What emerges is a world on the cusp of change. By convention, middle-class girls stayed at home, where their reading exposed them to powerful images of self-sacrificing women. Yet in reality girls in their teens increasingly attended schools--especially newly opened high schools, where they...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0300092636

ISBN13:9780300092639

Release Date:January 2003

Publisher:Yale University Press

Length:496 Pages

Weight:1.80 lbs.

Dimensions:1.3" x 7.0" x 9.8"

Related Subjects

19th Century Europe Gender Studies History Ireland Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences Specific Demographics Women in History Women's Studies

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