Regendering the school story: sassy sissies and tattling tomboys

Introduction : redressing the school story, crossgendering a genre. I. Before Tom Brown. Anxious proxies and independent girls : Charles Lamb and other early men

The first Tom Brown : Dorothy Kilner and other early women

Telling tales about telling tales : E.J. May and other talebearers

At midcentury : Mary Martha Sherwood and other transnational women. II. During the heyday of the canonical story. Crossing gender with race : Edward Everett Hale and other U.S. writers

Crossing gender with identity : Elizabeth Eiloart and other British writers

Sensationalizing the school story : Ellen Wood

Domesticating the school story : Louisa May Alcott

Engendering the school story : Julia A. Matthews. III. In the twentieth century. Policing the borders, satirizing the state : H.G. Wells and other female impersonators

Approaching high seriousness : D. Wynne Willson and other recent women.