Description: The eleven contributors to The Girl's Own explore British and American Victorian representations of the adolescent girl by drawing on such contemporary sources as conduct books, housekeeping manuals, periodicals, biographies, photographs, paintings, and educational treatises.
Brief description: CLAUDIA NELSON is a professor of English at Texas A&M University. She is author or editor of numerous books including Family Ties in Victorian England, The Girl's Own: Cultural Histories of the Anglo-American Girl, 1830-1915 (Georgia), and Little Strangers: Portrayals of Adoption in America, 1850-1929, which won the Children's Literature Association award for the best scholarly book of the year.
Review Quotes:
The diversity of sources cited in this book and its conclusion that 'the Girl' is ambiguous, a concept unable to be categorized, make it an important addition to the literature on nineteenth-century women.
--History of Education Quarterly