Bronwyn Lowe

'The Right Thing to Read' (eBook, ePUB)

A History of Australian Girl-Readers, 1910-1960

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'The Right Thing to Read': A History of Australian Girl-Readers, 1910-1960 explores the reading habits, identity, and construction of femininity of Australian girls aged between ten and fourteen from 1910 to 1960

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351008105
• Artikelnr.: 54063766

Autorenporträt

Bronwyn Lowe is a historian of Australian book history and girlhood, who examines attitudes towards girls' reading habits in the past. Her most recent journal articles have appeared in I,History Compass /I, and I,Book History /I,. She currently works as a sessional lecturer of Australian Studies at the University of Melbourne.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Girlhood reading in the First World War
2 Magazine reading and access in the 1920s
3 Libraries, education and reading in the Great Depression
4 Girl-readers in the Second World War
5 1950s Australia and a new Australian children's literature
Conclusion
Index