How young ladies became girls : the Victorian origins of American girlhood /
Publisher's description: Based on an extraordinary array of diaries and letters, this engaging book explores the shifting experiences of adolescent girls in the late nineteenth century. What emerges is a world on the cusp of change. By convention, middle-class girls stayed at home, where their...
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Format: | Licensed eBooks |
Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press
[2002]
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Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt5vkr8w |