How Young Ladies Became Girls: The Victorian Origins of American Girlhood.(Book review)

Journal of Social History | September 22, 2006| | Copyright

How Young Ladies Became Girls: The Victorian Origins of American Girlhood. By Jane H. Hunter (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. 478 pp.).

The story of how "young ladies" became "girls" is, as Jane Hunter tells it in her book of the same title, an important piece of the twin historical forces of modernism and feminism. In this absorbing and nuanced book Hunter situates transformations in girlhood within the larger framework of the mounting rejection of Victorianism at the end of the 19th century. It is a vast and complex undertaking, addressing an impressive ...

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