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

by Jane Hunter and Professor Jane Hunter

Book Overview

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"