The Awkward Age in Women's Popular Fiction, 1850-1900 Girls and the Transition to Womanhood

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The Awkward Age in Women's Popular Fiction, 1850-1900 Girls and the Transition to Womanhood by Bilston, Sarah, 9780199272617
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  • ISBN: 9780199272617 | 0199272611
  • Cover: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 9/30/2004

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Tracing evolving treatments of female adolescence through a host of long-forgotten women's fictions, the book reveals that representations of the girl in popular women's literature importantly anticipated depictions of the feminist in the fin de siècle New Woman writing; conservative portrayals of girls' hopes, dreams, and subsequent frustrations helped clear a literary and cultural space for the New Woman's "awakening" to disaffected consciousness.
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