Adolescent Girlhood and Literary Culture at the Fin de Siècle

1. Introduction: Debating and Defining Girlhood at the Fin de Siècle

Beth Rodgers

2. Classifying Girlhood, Creating Heroines: Aspiration, Community and Competition in the Girl’s Own Paper and the Girl’s Realm

Beth Rodgers

3. Making Transitions in Fin-de-Siècle Girls’ School Stories, 1886–1906
Beth Rodgers

4. ‘Flowering into Womanhood’? The New Woman and the New Girl
Beth Rodgers

5. ‘Development and Arrest of Development’: Sarah Grand’s ‘Girls of Today’
Beth Rodgers

6. Professionalizing the Modern Girl: Ella Hepworth Dixon, W. T. Stead and Journalism for Girls
Beth Rodgers

7. Coda: Voyaging Out
Beth Rodgers

Keywords: Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature, Literary Theory