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Well-dressed role models
the portrayal of women in biographies for children
By Eaton, Gale
- ISBN
- 978-0-81085-194-8
- Publisher
- Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2006.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on December 1, 2006
Leavening scholarship with mild irony, Eaton offers a perceptive four-way study ofliterally, in partchanging fashions in modern biographies for young readers. In the first section, the author identifies and compares every full-length or substantial biography of Elizabeth I published in the U.S. or Great Britain between 1852 and 2002. She then goes on to analyze the crops of biographies about girls and women published in 1946, in 1971, and in 1996. She considers the ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
