The New Girl: Girls' Culture in England, 1880-1915 (edition 1995)

by Sally Mitchell

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Drawing on fiction, magazines, memoirs and advice manuals, this text explores the emergence of a separate culture of girlhood - the free space between childhood and marriage - in England at the end of the 19th century.

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Title:	The New Girl: Girls' Culture in England, 1880-1915
Authors:	Sally Mitchell
Info:	Columbia University Press (1995), Paperback, 270 pages
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Drawing on fiction, magazines, memoirs and advice manuals, this text explores the emergence of a separate culture of girlhood - the free space between childhood and marriage - in England at the end of the 19th century.

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An examination of the depiction of girls, and of girlhood culture, in the children's literature of late nineteenth and early twentieth century England.

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