The short story "The Girls and I" changed into written by means of Mrs. Molesworth, whose actual name changed into Mary Louisa Molesworth and who changed into a well-known English writer of children's books in the past due 1800s and early 1900s. The book tells a candy and touching story about the lives of 3 sisters. The story is ready three sisters, Babi, Betty, and Bran, who're the "girls" within the title. As orphans who have to address the difficult things that include being an infant, the sisters get thru the u.S.A. And downs of lifestyles and form a near bond this is at the heart of the story. The story Molesworth tells is about a collection of cousins, friendship, and growing as a person. The radical takes place inside the stunning English nation-state and captures the innocence and marvel of childhood. Mrs. Molesworth's tales are regarded for being heat and honest, with people and conditions that younger readers can relate to. "The Girls and I" is a super instance of Mrs. Molesworth's talent at writing books for kids which might be each a laugh and teach them morals. Through the reports and studies of the three sisters, the book teaches critical classes about lifestyles and is a lovely look at Victorian kid's literature.

In this groundbreaking contribution to Victorian and children's literature studies, Marah Gubar proposes a fundamental reconception of the nineteenth-century attitude toward childhood. The ideology of innocence was much slower to spread than we think, she contends, and the people whom we assume were most committed to it--children's authors and members of the infamous "cult of the child"--were actually deeply ambivalent about this Romantic notion. Rather than wholeheartedly promoting a static ideal of childhood purity, Golden Age children's authors often characterize young people as collaborators who are caught up in the constraints of the culture they inhabit, and yet not inevitably victimized as a result of this contact with adults and their world. Such nuanced meditations on the vexed issue of the child's agency, Gubar suggests, can help contemporary scholars to generate more flexible critical approaches to the study of childhood and children's literature.

Iowa six-player girls? basketball was the most successful sporting activity for girls in American history, at its zenith involving more than 70 percent of the girls in the state. The state tournament was so popular?regularly drawing fifteen thousand fans, more than the boys? tourney?that officials declined a lucrative broadcasting offer from ABC?s Wide World of Sports rather than forfeit the Iowa Girls? High School Athletic Union?s control of the game. The Only Dance in Iowa chronicles the one-hundred-year history of this Iowa tradition, long a symbol of the state?s independence and the people?s rural pride. Max McElwain shows how, well before the passage of Title IX in 1972, Iowa six-player girls? basketball was, as Sports Illustrated gushed, ?a utopia for girls? athletics.? He also demonstrates how, ironically enough, the fallout from Title IX in many ways led to six-girl basketball?s demise. Through interviews, careful ethnography, and detailed historical analysis, McElwain exposes the intricate political, sociological, and historical dynamics of this cultural phenomenon. His book reveals how six-girl basketball, flourishing with the passionate support of Iowa?s small towns, school districts, and media, came to represent the state?s strong traditional beliefs and the public school system?s determination to maintain its identity in the face of national educational trends. The Only Dance in Iowa is as much a study of this disappearing culture as of the game it claimed as its own.