Colonial Girlhood in Literature, Culture and History, 1840–1950

1. Colonial Girlhood/Colonial Girls
Kristine Moruzi, Michelle J. Smith

Part One. Theorising the Colonial Girl

2. Colonialism: What Girlhoods Can Tell Us
Angela Woollacott

3. Fashioning the Colonial Girl
Cecily Devereux

Part Two. Romance and Marriage

4. ‘Explorations in Industry’
Ken Gelder, Rachael Weaver

5. Deflecting the Marriage Plot
Terri Doughty

6. Coming of Age in Colonial India
Subhasri Ghosh

Part Three. Race and Class

7. ‘My blarsted greenstone throne!’
Clare Bradford

8. Black Princesses or Domestic Servants
Juliet O’Conor

9. The Jam and Matchsticks Problem
S. E. Duff

Part Four. Fictions of Colonial Girlhood

10. The Colonial Girl’s Own Papers
Tamara S. Wagner

11. ‘I am glad I am Irish through and through and through’
Beth Rodgers

12. Making Space for the Irish Girl
Susan Cahill

13. Education and Work in Service of the Nation
Kristine Moruzi, Michelle J. Smith

Part Five. Material Culture

14. Picturing Girlhood and Empire
Kristine Alexander

15. Material Girls
Laura Ishiguro

16. An Unexpected History Lesson
Fiona P. McDonald

Keywords: Literature, African Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Twentieth-Century Literature, Gender Studies, Fiction