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What Katy Read

Feminist Re-Readings of ‘Classic’ Stories for Girls

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  • © 1995

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Authors:
  1. Shirley Foster

    1. University of Sheffield, UK

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  2. Judy Simons

    1. Sheffield Hallam University, UK

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Shirley Foster, Judy Simons
    Pages 1-35

  3. Susan Warner: The Wide, Wide World

    • Shirley Foster, Judy Simons
    Pages 36-60

  4. Charlotte Yonge: The Daisy Chain

    • Shirley Foster, Judy Simons
    Pages 61-84

  5. Louisa May Alcott: Little Women

    • Shirley Foster, Judy Simons
    Pages 85-106

  6. Susan Coolidge: What Katy Did

    • Shirley Foster, Judy Simons
    Pages 107-126

  7. E. Nesbit: The Railway Children

    • Shirley Foster, Judy Simons
    Pages 127-148

  8. L.M. Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables

    • Shirley Foster, Judy Simons
    Pages 149-171

  9. Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden

    • Shirley Foster, Judy Simons
    Pages 172-191

  10. Angela Brazil: The Madcap of the School

    • Shirley Foster, Judy Simons
    Pages 192-212

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 213-223
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What Katy Read focuses on a much neglected area of literary criticism: literature for girls. Written by women for children, such texts have been doubly marginalized by the critical establishment. Shirley Foster and Judy Simons use twentieth-century feminist critical practice to open up fresh perspectives on popular fiction for girls written between 1850 and 1920. The study analyses both American and British novels for girls which have acquired 'classic' status, from the domestic myth to the school story, and considers their scope and influence in providing role models for girl readers.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Sheffield, UK

    Shirley Foster

  • Sheffield Hallam University, UK

    Judy Simons

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