A Girl in the Roaring ’20s

A young girl posing with her doll from the 1920s. http://www.dollinfo.com/childphotos2.htm When we think about girls in the 1920s, an image of a flapper with her bobbed hair and daring short skirt comes to mind. The flapper is an important part of history, as she...

A Girl in Victorian Britain

A girls’ classroom. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/victorian_britain/victorian_schools/ In Victorian times a girl had few choices when it came to aspirations. The ideal Victorian woman was one who was a housewife and mother‚Äìthe...

A Girl in Lesbos (Ancient Greece)

Reverie a.k.a. In the Days of Sappho (1904), by John William Godward Wikimedia Commons If you had a time machine, where would you go? Where–and when–was the best time in history to be a girl? As a lover...

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