Empire Girls
Treagus, Mandy
The dominant form of the nineteenth-century novel was the Bildungsroman, a story of an individual's development that came to speak more widely of the aspirations of nineteenth-century British society. Some of the most famous examples - David Copperfield, Great Expectations, Jane Eyre - validated the world from which they sprang, in which even orphans could successfully make their way. Empire Girls: the colonial heroine comes of age is a critic...