This edited collection recovers "lost" girls' series fiction heroines of the twentieth century. The chapters examine the role the heroines' sociohistorical contexts play in the narrative plot lines as well as the series' popularity and relatability for readers.
This edited collection recovers "lost" girls' series fiction heroines of the twentieth century. The chapters examine the role the heroines' sociohistorical contexts play in the narrative plot lines as well as the series' popularity and relatability for readers.
LuElla D'Amico is associate professor of English and coordinator of the women's and gender studies program at the University of the Incarnate Word. Emily Hamilton-Honey is associate professor of English and humanities at SUNY Canton.
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Introduction: Imperfect Adventures: 'Relatable' Heroines in Twentieth-Century Girls' Series Fiction LuElla D'Amico and Emily Hamilton-Honey Chapter 1: Betty Wales: From Series Book Heroine to Lifestyle Brand Jill Hobgood Chapter 2: Adventure, Mystery, and Fashion: On Fashion and the Modelling Profession in Polly the Powers Model: The Puzzle of the Haunted Camera Erika Johansson Lunding Chapter 3: Finding the Right Formula, or How The Madge Sterling Series Provided Mildred Wirt (Benson) with the Perfect Formula for Writing Children's Mystery Series Todd Latoski Chapter 4: Before Nancy Drew: American Girls' Series Fiction of the 1920s Susan Ingalls Lewis Chapter 5: On Being Glad: Pollyanna and Stoic Thought LuElla D'Amico and Gregory Eiselein Chapter 6: "To See If College Could Make Half the Woman of Me That It Made of My Mother": The Beverly Gray Series as a Mid-Century Return to Progressive Era Girls' Series Fiction Emily Hamilton-Honey Chapter 7: Maida Westabrook: Inez Haynes Gillmore Irwin's Little Lady Bountiful Robin Cadwallader Chapter 8: Miss Pickerell Tackles the Stereotypes: Gender, Science Education, and Mid-century Science Fiction Liz W. Faber Chapter 9: "More like Americans": Sydney Taylor's Queering of Historical Fiction Girls' Series Melanie J. Fishbane Chapter 10: "To prove their worth in a man's world": Depicting and Encouraging White Women's Growing Professional Opportunities in Betty Baxter Anderson's 1940s Career Novels Karen Keely Chapter 11: Inventing the Career Girl Narrative in Vicki Barr Michael Cornelius Chapter 12: Student Dancer: Education, Community, and Love in Regina J. Woody's Dance-Career Novels Jill E. Anderson
Introduction: Imperfect Adventures: 'Relatable' Heroines in Twentieth-Century Girls' Series Fiction LuElla D'Amico and Emily Hamilton-Honey Chapter 1: Betty Wales: From Series Book Heroine to Lifestyle Brand Jill Hobgood Chapter 2: Adventure, Mystery, and Fashion: On Fashion and the Modelling Profession in Polly the Powers Model: The Puzzle of the Haunted Camera Erika Johansson Lunding Chapter 3: Finding the Right Formula, or How The Madge Sterling Series Provided Mildred Wirt (Benson) with the Perfect Formula for Writing Children's Mystery Series Todd Latoski Chapter 4: Before Nancy Drew: American Girls' Series Fiction of the 1920s Susan Ingalls Lewis Chapter 5: On Being Glad: Pollyanna and Stoic Thought LuElla D'Amico and Gregory Eiselein Chapter 6: "To See If College Could Make Half the Woman of Me That It Made of My Mother": The Beverly Gray Series as a Mid-Century Return to Progressive Era Girls' Series Fiction Emily Hamilton-Honey Chapter 7: Maida Westabrook: Inez Haynes Gillmore Irwin's Little Lady Bountiful Robin Cadwallader Chapter 8: Miss Pickerell Tackles the Stereotypes: Gender, Science Education, and Mid-century Science Fiction Liz W. Faber Chapter 9: "More like Americans": Sydney Taylor's Queering of Historical Fiction Girls' Series Melanie J. Fishbane Chapter 10: "To prove their worth in a man's world": Depicting and Encouraging White Women's Growing Professional Opportunities in Betty Baxter Anderson's 1940s Career Novels Karen Keely Chapter 11: Inventing the Career Girl Narrative in Vicki Barr Michael Cornelius Chapter 12: Student Dancer: Education, Community, and Love in Regina J. Woody's Dance-Career Novels Jill E. Anderson
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