Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
One. Preparedness
Two. Girls Who Stay at Home
Three. Girls Who Nurse and Do Relief Work
Four. Girls Who Drive and Fly
Five. Uncovering Spies and Saboteurs
Six. Girls Who Rescue Men
Seven. Girls Who Fight
Conclusion
Appendix A: Book Series in Order of Publication
Appendix B: Series Authors
Appendix C: Summaries of the Wartime Volumes from Individual Series
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Emily Hamilton-Honey is an associate professor of English and gender studies at SUNY Canton, specializing in series fiction, girlhood studies, and postbellum and Progressive Era American women’s literature and history. She lives in Canton, New York. Susan Ingalls Lewis is a professor emerita in the department of history, SUNY New Paltz, specializing in American women’s history, the Progressive Era, and New York State history. She lives in Rosendale, New York.

Reviews

“A meticulously detailed and accessibly written analysis of a broad range of fictional book series about girls in the WW I era…Hamilton-Honey and Lewis conclude that these heroines were far more feminist than those in the following decades…recommended”—Choice

“An intriguing examination of a comparatively underexamined body of literature: girls’ series fiction of the First World War era… This study offers an important new contribution to girls’ studies, among a variety of other disciplinary and interdisciplinary fields”—The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth

“This volume provides a detailed analysis of girls' series books that came out during World War I. The authors show the various ways in which the central characters in these stories contribute to the war effort by playing supportive roles on the home front and by participating directly in wartime activities. The authors argue that in some cases the adventurous heroines in these stories provided girl readers with feminist role models.”—Children's Literature Association Quarterly

“This book provides significant, well-researched, and much-needed information about early 20th century America and the role girls’ series fiction of that era played in the changing dynamic of girlhood and young womanhood.”—Diana V. Dominguez, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley