1st Edition

The Clubwomen's Daughters Collectivist Impulses in Progressive-era Girl's Fiction, 1890-1940

By Gwen Tarbox Copyright 2000
176 Pages
by Routledge

174 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

The author provides an interdisciplinary cultural study of the evolution of Progressive-era girls' peer groups, their representation in popular girls' fiction, and the influence of these communities, both real and fictional, upon young women's lives during the years leading up to the Second World War. The writers featured in this volume were the first generation of New Women, whose ability to... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 Braving “Sarcasm and Sneers”; Chapter 2 “The Power to Set Things Going”; Chapter 3 “Impersonating Their Citizen Brothers”; Chapter 4 Four Girls at Cottage City; Chapter 5 “Mama! Come An’ See the Suffragists!”; Chapter 6 The Secret of the Girl Sleuth; Chapter 7 Epilogue;

Biography

Jerome Nadelhalft University of Maine, Gwen Athene Tarbox