The eleven contributors to The Girl's Own explore British and American Victorian representations of the adolescent girl by drawing on such contemporary sources

The Girl’s Own Paper, founded in 1880, both shaped and reflected tensions between traditional domestic ideologies of the period and New Woman values in the co

Nineteenth-century British periodicals for girls and women offer a wealth of material to understand how girls and women fit into their social and cultural world

A delightful dip into the pages of the popular magazine for girls that originally aimed to help to train them in moral and domestic virtues.