College Girl Fiction
The few women who did manage to attend college in the
nineteenth century displayed their learning at the risk of being labeled
"unwomanly" by Victorian culture.
Novels that dealt with higher education for women often confirmed the Victorian view of educated women as aberrations, portraying them as sexless, mentally disturbed, or dangerous.
[top] Mrs. Annie Edwards. A Girton Girl. London:
Richard Bentley & Son, 1885. [bottom] L. T. Meade. The Girls of
Merton College. London: W. & R. Chambers, [ca.1898]
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