Titlebook: British and American School Stories, 1910–1960; Fiction, Femininity, Nancy G. Rosoff,Stephanie Spencer Book 2019 The Editor(s) (if applicab

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Book 2019re the formation and ideologies of feminine identity. Nancy G. Rosoff and Stephanie Spencer develop a transnational framework that recognises how both constructed and essential femininities transcend national boundaries. The book discusses the significance and performance of female friendship across

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Sociability,reading fiction alongside contemporary documentary evidence. The importance of the contextual development of girls’ education in Britain and the United States provides a necessary backdrop to readers’ recognition of the familiar negotiation of both positive and negative effects of peer friendship for girls and women.

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Responsibility,the supranational aspect of female citizenship between 1910 and 1960. The theoretical framework enables Rosoff and Spencer to interrogate examples of fictional accounts of leadership in school and philanthropic acts by the heroines in the wider community.

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Domesticity,cer’s analysis demonstrates how stories acted as informal education into the significant role played by, and the respect due to, matrons, managers of halls of residence, and domestic maids. Vignettes of characters’ skills in cookery, needlework, and laundry provide the focus for reflections on the changing role of women over 50 years.

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Possibility,cts for paid work as well as expectations that girls would follow a traditional role as wife and mother. The continuance of friendship groups formed at school as characters move into adult worlds provides further focus for insight into the characteristics of femininity that transcend national boundaries.

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Conclusion,re as both informal education for contemporary readers and a valid historical source for historians of girlhood and informal education. Their research offers important insights into how ideas of female sociability, authority, domesticity, responsibility, and possibility are woven into a gender ideology that transcends national borders.

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adictory components of femininity that combine to create a gThis 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 formation and ideologies of feminine identity. Nancy G. Rosoff and Stephanie Spence