Title How young ladies became girls : the Victorian origins of American girlhood / Jane H. Hunter.

Publication Info.	New Haven : Yale University Press, [2002]
	©2002

Item Status

Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	HT690.U6 H86 2002	Available	---

Description	xvi, 478 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 463-466) and index.
Contents	Work: -- Daughters' lives and the work of the middle-class home -- Writing and self-culture -- Reading and the development of taste -- Geographies: -- Houses, families, rooms of one's own -- Interiors -- Competitive practices -- High school culture -- Friendship, fun, and the city streets -- Endings: -- Commencement -- New girls, new women.
Subject	Middle class -- Northeastern States -- History -- 19th century.
	Middle class.
	Northeastern States.
	History.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	Women -- Northeastern States -- History -- 19th century.
	Women.
	Girls -- Northeastern States -- History -- 19th century.
	Girls.
	Home economics -- Northeastern States -- History -- 19th century.
	Home economics.
	Women.
	Womyn.
	Girls.
ISBN	0300092636 cloth alkaline paper