Improvements in education and economic expansion in the 1950s ensured a range of school-leaving employment opportunities. Yet girls' full acceptance as adult wo

This volume addresses the current boom in biographical fictions across the globe, examining the ways in which gendered lives of the past become re-imagined as g

This book examines school and college fiction for girls in Britain and the United States, written in the first half of the twentieth century, to explore the for

The millennium has sharpened perspectives on the history of women in twentieth-century Britain. Many features of the contemporary gender order date only from th

This edited book presents a range of chapters written by new and established authors, drawing on a range of different perspectives and traditions to critically