The Girl's Own Book
Author | : Lydia Maria Child |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1833 |
Genre | : Amusements |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Lydia Maria Child |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1833 |
Genre | : Amusements |
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Author | : Claudia Nelson |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2010-06-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0820336955 |
The eleven contributors to The Girl's Own explore British and American Victorian representations of the adolescent girl by drawing on such contemporary sources as conduct books, housekeeping manuals, periodicals, biographies, photographs, paintings, and educational treatises. The institutions, practices, and literatures discussed reveal the ways in which the Girl expressed her independence, as well as the ways in which she was presented and controlled. As the contributors note, nineteenth-century visions of girlhood were extremely ambiguous. The adolescent girl was a fascinating and troubling figure to Victorian commentators, especially in debates surrounding female sexuality and behavior. The Girl's Own combines literary and cultural history in its discussion of both British and American texts and practices. Among the topics addressed are the nineteenth-century attempt to link morality and diet; the making of heroines in biographies for girls; Lewis Carroll's and John Millais's iconographies of girlhood in, respectively, their photographs and paintings; genre fiction for and by girls; and the effort to reincorporate teenage unwed mothers into the domestic life of Victorian America.
Author | : |
Publisher | : Broadview Press |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Girl's own paper |
ISBN | : 1770482350 |
Author | : Judith Barger |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2016-09-13 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1315534924 |
Nineteenth-century British periodicals for girls and women offer a wealth of material to understand how girls and women fit into their social and cultural worlds, of which music making was an important part. The Girl's Own Paper, first published in 1880, stands out because of its rich musical content. Keeping practical usefulness as a research tool and as a guide to further reading in mind, Judith Barger has catalogued the musical content found in the weekly and later monthly issues during the magazine's first thirty years, in music scores, instalments of serialized fiction about musicians, music-related nonfiction, poetry with a musical title or theme, illustrations depicting music making and replies to musical correspondents. The book's introductory chapter reveals how content in The Girl's Own Paper changed over time to reflect a shift in women's music making from a female accomplishment to an increasingly professional role within the discipline, using 'the piano girl' as a case study. A comparison with musical content found in The Boy's Own Paper over the same time span offers additional insight into musical content chosen for the girls' magazine. A user's guide precedes the chronological annotated catalogue; the indexes that follow reveal the magazine's diversity of approach to the subject of music.
Author | : Emma Cline |
Publisher | : Random House Trade Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2017-05-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0812988027 |
THE INSTANT BESTSELLER • An indelible portrait of girls, the women they become, and that moment in life when everything can go horribly wrong ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR, The Guardian, Entertainment Weekly, San Francisco Chronicle, Financial Times, Esquire, Newsweek, Vogue, Glamour, People, The Huffington Post, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, Time Out, BookPage, Publishers Weekly, Slate Northern California, during the violent end of the 1960s. At the start of summer, a lonely and thoughtful teenager, Evie Boyd, sees a group of girls in the park, and is immediately caught by their freedom, their careless dress, their dangerous aura of abandon. Soon, Evie is in thrall to Suzanne, a mesmerizing older girl, and is drawn into the circle of a soon-to-be infamous cult and the man who is its charismatic leader. Hidden in the hills, their sprawling ranch is eerie and run down, but to Evie, it is exotic, thrilling, charged—a place where she feels desperate to be accepted. As she spends more time away from her mother and the rhythms of her daily life, and as her obsession with Suzanne intensifies, Evie does not realize she is coming closer and closer to unthinkable violence. Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize • Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Award • Shortlisted for The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize • The New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • Emma Cline—One of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists Praise for The Girls “Spellbinding . . . a seductive and arresting coming-of-age story.”—The New York Times Book Review “Extraordinary . . . Debut novels like this are rare, indeed.”—The Washington Post “Hypnotic.”—The Wall Street Journal “Gorgeous.”—Los Angeles Times “Savage.”—The Guardian “Astonishing.”—The Boston Globe “Superbly written.”—James Wood, The New Yorker “Intensely consuming.”—Richard Ford “A spectacular achievement.”—Lucy Atkins, The Times “Thrilling.”—Jennifer Egan “Compelling and startling.”—The Economist
Author | : Wendy Forrester |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1988-04 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780718827175 |
A delightful dip into the pages of the popular magazine for girls that originally aimed to help to train them in moral and domestic virtues.
Author | : Lois Browne |
Publisher | : HarperAudio |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : |
A colorful chronicle of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, as recalled by the very women and men who were a part of it. From Philip K. Wrigley, the chewing-gum mogul who had the idea for the league, to "Gabby" Ziegler, captain of the Grand Rapids Chicks, Girls of the Summer is about dreams and about making those dreams come true.
Author | : Jim Buckley |
Publisher | : Studio Fun International |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-09-09 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780794432164 |
Part activity book, part fact book, and part journal, this book includes hundreds of challenges and spaces to record each performance. Plus there are achievement stickers kids can use as rewards for their accomplishments. YOU are amazing! How amazing? Let’s find out! Inside the pages of this book are oodles of challenges, feats, competitions, and tests of extreme awesomeness. How many pennies can you stack while blindfolded? How many animals can you name in 20 seconds? How many times can you say, “Silly Sally slurps soda slowly,” without making a mistake? Test your mind and body. Record your results. Challenge your friends. How do they measure up? Keep track of your achievments in the space provided, and compare your results against existing world records. Rewards yourself and your friends with the provided stickers and press-out rewards.
Author | : Illustrated girls' own story-book |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1861 |
Genre | : |
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