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Little Girls and the Effects of Children's Literature

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lists 3 sources. TGgirlit.rtf The Impact of Childrens Literature on Little Girls by Tracy Gregory, August 2001 -- for more information on  using this paper properly! Historically, the genre of childrens literature has never received the critical praise it has so richly deserved, as if works that are written for  children should not be taken seriously. However, the impact of this literature on a childs life is truly immeasurable. Originally, most stories featured male characters and were written  specifically for boys, since they received more formal education than their female counterparts, and therefore, had the necessary reading skills, not to mention access to books. However, this began  to change by the mid-nineteenth century, and soon, there were an increasing number of childrens books published that contained female protagonists. In 1865, an English math tutor named Charles  Lutwidge Dodgson published his first book, Alices Adventures in Wonderland, an imaginative fantasy, under the pseudonym of Lewis Carroll. The book was inspired by the stories Dodgson entertained his  student Alice Liddell and her sisters with, and made a profound impression on the young girls who read it and could easily relate to the inquisitive Alice who illustrated that  an adventurous spirit was not limited to the male gender. Three years later, in the United States, Louisa May Alcott published her classic novel, Little Women, which detailed the  trials and tribulations of the March sisters, who had their own uniquely developed personalities, and each in their own way defied the restrictive conventions of Victorian society. Little  Women illustrated the need that impressionable young girls had for female role models. Its enormous commercial success also informed publishers that books featuring girls were lucrative commodities. Unfortunately,