Bibliography
Book-Length Study (1)
Pfeiffer, Julie. Transforming Girls: The Work of Nineteenth-Century Adolescence. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2021. Children’s Literature Association. See esp. chapter 1, “Defining the Backfisch,” 41–64; chapter 3, “Converting Girls into Women,” 93–116; chapter 5, “The Homesick Heroine,” 141–63.
Journal Article (1)
McQuillan, Julia, and Julie Pfeiffer. “Why Anne Makes Us Dizzy: Reading Anne of Green Gables from a Gender Perspective.” Mosaic 34, no. 2 (June 2001): 17–32. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44029443.