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The Awkward Age in Women's Popular Fiction, 1850-1900: Girls and the Transition to Womanhood

Sarah Bilston

Print publication date: 2004

Print ISBN-13: 9780199272617

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2010

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199272617.001.0001

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The Transitional Stage

The Transitional Stage

Theatrical Girlhood in 1870s Fiction

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(p.96) 3 The Transitional Stage
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The Awkward Age in Women's Popular Fiction, 1850-1900
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SARAH BILSTON

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Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199272617.003.0004

This chapter regards the transition to womanhood as a stage performativity and theatricality. It explains that girls in the transition to womanhood were likely to provoke comparisons with the actress. It demonstrates how girls are depicted as actresses who have their own roles to perform.

Keywords:   performitivity, theatricality, transition, actress, girlhood, womanhood

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