Bilston investigates how writers portrayed female adolescence and discusses why women authors so often centred on adolescent heroines. She considers how representations of the turbulent disaffected adolescent laid the foundation for the feminist New...
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Bilston investigates how writers portrayed female adolescence and discusses why women authors so often centred on adolescent heroines. She considers how representations of the turbulent disaffected adolescent laid the foundation for the feminist New Woman heroine at the end of the 19th century
Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-241) and index
Launched into the ocean of life: navigating the transition to womanhood in 1850s fictionThe transitional stage theatrical girlhood in 1870s fiction -- Coming out: passages to womanhood in British and Anglo-Indian fiction, 1880-1894 -- On the threshhold : female adolescent experience in the fiction of the fin de siècle -- A scant but quite ponderable germ: girls growth in Henry James' The awkward age.
