“It’s for the Country—To Say Nothing of the Honour of the School”: Empire and Loyalty in The British Girl’s Annual’s School Stories

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brooke Cameron ◽  
Alicia Alves
Keyword(s):  
School Stories

Enforcing Performance: Disciplining Girls in British Co-educational Boarding School Stories, 1928–58

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-138
Author(s):  
CLARE HOLLOWELL
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
Educational Setting ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
School Stories ◽  
School Story ◽  
Girls School ◽  
A Site

This paper examines girls and power in British co-educational boarding school stories published from 1928 to 1958. While feminist scholars have hailed the girls’ school story as a site of potential resistance to constricting gender roles, the same can not be said of the co-educational school story. While the genres share many tropes and characterisation, the move from an all-female world to a co-educational setting allows the characters access to a narrower range of gender roles, and renders the female characters significantly less powerful. The disciplinary structures of the co-educational schools, mirroring those in real life, operate in a supposedly progressive manner that in fact removes girls from access to power.

School Stories: How Do Exemplary Teen Writers Portray Academics?

Roeper Review ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 168-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jill M. Olthouse ◽  
Alan L. Edmunds ◽  
Adrienne E. Sauder
Keyword(s):  
School Stories

School stories, 1970?1980

1982 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-79
Author(s):  
Nicholas Tucker
Keyword(s):  
School Stories

School Stories

NextGeners ◽  
2016 ◽  
pp. 109-137
Author(s):  
Bryant Griffith
Keyword(s):  
School Stories

Junior High School Stories

1928 ◽  
Vol 17 (6) ◽  
pp. 520
Author(s):  
Claudia Crumpton ◽  
Emily Hanson Obear
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Junior High ◽  
School Stories

The Encyclopaedia of Girls’ School Stories

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sue Sims ◽  
Hilary Clare
Keyword(s):  
School Stories ◽  
Girls School
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