Fast and Fashionable: The Girls in the Girl of the Period Miscellany Moruzi, Kristine 2009, Fast and Fashionable: The Girls in the Girl of the Period Miscellany, Australasian journal of Victorian studies, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 9-28. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Fast and Fashionable: The Girls in the Girl of the Period Miscellany Author(s) Moruzi, Kristine orcid.org/0000-0002-2636-975X Journal name Australasian journal of Victorian studies Volume number 14 Issue number 1 Start page 9 End page 28 Total pages 20 Publisher Australasian Victorian Studies Association Place of publication Melbourne, Vic. Publication date 2009 ISSN 1327-8746 Keyword(s) Victorian Studies Summary The Girl of the Period Miscellany is particularly interesting in that it reworked the Girl of the Period from an object of disdain into a figure who might be humorous, but who was also engaging and sympathetic. Rather than being easily categorized and dismissed, the Girl of the Period found in the Miscellany has some characteristics that invite satire but she is also capable, entertaining, and attractive. Moreover, there is a significant difference between thinking about the article that spawned the phenomenon and the Miscellany itself. Appearing in the conservative Saturday Review, the article was provocative and seemingly intended to be so. In contrast, the Miscellany was designed to attract and retain a readership. This article will examine how and why the Miscellany is able to resist Linton’s simplistic construction of the Girl of the Period and instead depicts a variety of different girls who, although their behaviour might be more “modern,” are nonetheless worthy of respect and attention as pure, virtuous, middle-class girls. In addition, the publication of the Miscellany demonstrates the challenges of attracting as readers a group of girls and young women whose self-conception was rapidly shifting at the end of the 1860s. Language eng Field of Research 199999 Studies in Creative Arts and Writing not elsewhere classified Socio Economic Objective 970119 Expanding Knowledge through Studies of the Creative Arts and Writing HERDC Research category C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30061372 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education School of Communication and Creative Arts Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Thu, 06 Mar 2014, 11:42:56 EST Thu, 13 Mar 2014, 12:55:18 EST Fri, 09 May 2014, 08:42:26 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 173 Abstract Views, 3 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Thu, 06 Mar 2014, 11:42:56 EST

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