Adolescent Girlhood and Literary Culture at the Fin de Siècle

Beth Rodgers is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at Aberystwyth University, UK. She has published articles on Victorian girls’ literature and culture and is co-editor of Children’s Literature on the Move: Nations, Translations, Migrations (2013), which received the Children’s Literature Association’s honour award in 2015.

• Introduction: Debating and Defining Adolescent Girlhood at the Fin de Siècle.- 1. Classifying Girlhood, Creating Heroines: Aspiration, Community and Competition in the Girl’s Own Paper and the Girl’s Realm.- 2. Making Transitions in fin-de-siècle Girls’ School Stories, 1886-1906.- 3. ‘Flowering into womanhood’? The New Woman and the New Girl.- 4. ‘Development and Arrest of Development’: Sarah Grand’s ‘Girls of Today’.- 5. Professionalizing the Modern Girl: Ella Hepworth Dixon, W.T. Stead and Journalism for Girls.- Coda: Voyaging Out.- Bibliography.- Index.-