Summary: | Eleven essays exploring British and American Victorian representations of the adolescent girl draw on sources such as conduct books, housekeeping manuals, periodicals, biographies, and educational treatises. Topics include the 19th-century attempt to link morality and diet; Lewis Carroll's and John Millais' iconographies of girlhood in their photographs and paintings; and genre fiction for and by girls. Includes b&w photos and reproductions. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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