1st Edition
Queer Nostalgia, Colonialism, and the Girls’ Boarding School Novel, 1933–2023
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Girls’ Boarding Schools and Their Queer Nostalgic Imaginings
Part I: Inside Britain: Protestants and Catholics
Chapter One: National Belonging and Queer Disavowal in Rosemary Manning’s The Chinese Garden
Chapter Two: Queering Catholicism in Antonia White’s Frost in May
Part II: Britain, India, and the Colonial Imagination
Chapter Three: Re-imagining the Girls’ Boarding School Archive: Eliza Raine, Anne Lister, and Emma Donoghue’s Learned by Heart
Chapter Four: Lesbian Desire and Postcolonial Reflections in Nayana Currimbhoy’s Miss Timmins’ School for Girls
Part III: Britain, Australia, and Postcolonial (Im)possibilities
Chapter Five: Joan Lindsay’s Queer Times: Picnic at Hanging Rock
Chapter Six: Lesbian Disruption in K. Patrick’s Mrs. S
Conclusion: Telling School Tales
Selected Girls’ Boarding School Fiction
Selected Girls’ Boarding School Films and Television Series
Works Cited
Index
Biography
Chris Roulston is Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies and French Studies at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. Her interests include the history of sexuality, queer theory, marriage literature, and Anne Lister. She is co-editor of Decoding Anne Lister: From the Archives to ‘Gentleman Jack’ (with Caroline Gonda; 2023).
