Research Catalog

Title

Girls only? : gender and popular children's fiction in Britain, 1880-1910 / Kimberley Reynolds.

Author

Reynolds, Kimberley.

Publication

New York : Harvester/Wheatsheaf, 1990.

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Holdings

Details

Description

xxi, 182 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Subjects

• English fiction
• Popular literature
• Boys > Books and reading
• Children's stories, English
• Boys > Books and reading > Great Britain
• Children's stories, English > History and criticism
• Dust jackets
• English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
• Jugendliteratur
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Great Britain
• 1800-1999
• Paper (fibre product) case bindings
• Jeugdliteratuur
• Sex roles > Influence of children's literature in English
• Sex role in literature
• Englisch
• Popular literature > Great Britain > History and criticism
• Kinderliteratur
• Sekserol
• Geschichte 1880-1910
• Geschlechterrolle
• Girls > Books and reading > Great Britain
• English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism

Genre/Form

• Book jackets.
• Paper (fibre product) case bindings.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-178) and index.

Contents

Look into their books: social attitudes to children's reading and the impact of compulsory education -- Sexuality and status in juvenile fiction -- Boys must be boys: masculinity and boys' reading habits -- Bracing, bold and British: G.A. Henty, Talbot Baines Reed and the Boy's own paper -- A literature of their own? Or what girls read -- Angel voices: Evelyn Everett-Green, L.T Meade and the Girls' own paper.

ISBN

• 071081223X
• 9780710812230
• 0710812248
• 9780710812247
• 0877227373
• 9780877227373

LCCN

92140899

OCLC

• ocm25675332
• 25675332
• SCSB-2774084

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries