Foster, Shirley.

What Katy read : feminist re-readings of "classic" stories for girls / Shirley Foster and Judy Simons. - Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1995. - xii, 223 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Susan Warner: The wide, wide world -- Charlotte Yonge: The daisy chain -- Louisa May Alcott: Little women -- Susan Coolidge: What Katy did -- E. Nesbit: The railway children -- L.M. Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables -- Frances Hodgson Burnett: The secret garden -- Angela Brazil: The madcap of the school.

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Children's stories, English--History and criticism.
Children's stories, American--History and criticism.
Girls in literature.
Feminism.

PN481 / .F67 1995

823/.8/0992827