Fictions of Female Education in the Nineteenth Century
Seeking to understand how literary texts both shaped and reflected the century''s debates over adolescent female education, this book examines fictional works and historical documents featuring descriptions of girls'' formal educational experiences between the 1810s and the 1890s. Alves argues that the emergence of schoolgirl culture in nineteenth-century America presented significant challenges t...
Seeking to understand how literary texts both shaped and reflected the century''s debates over adolescent female education, this book examines fictional works and historical documents featuring descriptions of girls'' formal educational experiences between the 1810s and the 1890s. Alves argues that the emergence of schoolgirl culture in nineteenth-century America presented significant challenges t...
