Selections from The Girls Own Paper, 1880-1907 (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by Broadview Press Ltd, Peterborough, 2004
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Paperback. The Girls Own Paper, founded in 1880, both shaped and reflected tensions between traditional domestic ideologies of the period and New Woman values in the context of the figure of the New Girl. These selections from the journal demonstrate the efforts of its publisher (the Religious Tract Society) to combat the negative moral influence of sensational popular literature while at the same time addressing the desires of its audience for exciting reading material and information about topics mothers could not or would not discuss.Selected fiction gives a rich sense of the conventions and the domestic ideology of the time; the nonfiction prose ranges from essays on conduct and household management to articles on new opportunities in education and work. These selections from The Girls Own Paper give a rich sense of the conventions and the domestic ideology at the time of the founding of the journal in 1880. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…
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- Title
- Selections from The Girls Own Paper, 1880-1907 (Paperback)
- Author
- Terri Doughty
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd, Peterborough
- Publication year
- 2004
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 155111528X
- ISBN 13
- 9781551115283
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 context of the figure of the New Girl. These selections from the journal demonstrate the efforts of its publisher (the Religious Tract Society) to combat the negative moral influence of sensational popular literature while at the same time addressing the desires of its audience for exciting reading material and information about topics mothers could not or would not discuss.
Selected fiction gives a rich sense of the conventions and the domestic ideology of the time; the nonfiction prose ranges from essays on conduct and household management to articles on new opportunities in education and work.
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Terri Doughty is a Professor at Malaspina University College in Nanaimo, British Columbia. She has published on New Woman fiction as well as on gender issues in children’s literature.
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