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).
Stories and literature
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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