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

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

Jane Hunter

478 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history informative reflective slow-paced
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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 staye...

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