Title
Dinny Gordon, Intellectual: Anne Emery's Postwar Junior Fiction and Girls' Intellectual Culture
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Spring 2014
Abstract
In her Dinny Gordon series (1958-1965), junior novelist Anne Emery’s heroine manifests intellectual desire, a passionate engagement in the life of the mind along with the desire to connect with like-minded others. Within a genre which focused on socialization and dating, in Dinny, Emery normalizes a studious, inner-directed, yet feminine heroine, passionate about ancient history rather than football captains. Emery’s endorsement of the pleasure Dinny takes in intellectual work, and the friends and boyfriends Dinny collects, challenge stereotypes of intellectual girls as dateless isolates while suggesting an alternative model of girlhood operating within apparent conformism to postwar “good girl” standards.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1353/hcy.2014.0027
Recommended Citation
Anderson, Jill E., "Dinny Gordon, Intellectual: Anne Emery's Postwar Junior Fiction and Girls' Intellectual Culture" (2014). University Library Faculty Publications. 136.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1353/hcy.2014.0027
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Comments
Author accepted manuscript version of an article published in
Anderson, Jill. "Dinny Gordon, Intellectual: Anne Emery’s Postwar Junior Fiction and Girls’ Intellectual Culture." The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, vol. 7 no. 2, 2014, p. 243-266. Project MUSE, doi: https://doi.org/10.1353/hcy.2014.0027.
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