Julie Pfeiffer

Professor of English, Hollins University, Virginia

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Julie Pfeiffer is professor of English at Hollins University in Virginia. She is the author of Transforming Girls: The Work of Nineteenth-Century Adolescence (University Press of Mississippi, 2021).

Written by Julie Pfeiffer

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STORIES AND LITERATURE

Forget ‘Little Women’. How did girls learn to be grown women?

How might 19th-century novels for adolescent girls help us find healthier models of what it means to grow up female today?

by Julie Pfeiffer