LITERARY GIRLS

THIS is such a beautiful painting that I had to share!

Girlhood nowadays is its own independent subject of study in the postgraduate gender, literature and cultural fields; but it has been a favorite subject for painting, art and literature for centuries.

Jane Eyre's painful childhood, the March sisters, Sarah the Little Princess, Polyanna, Anne of Green Gables, Christine from Flambards, Judith Dunbar from Coming Home, Estella's traumatic girlhood in Great Expectations -- the list is endless, and it is a trip down our shared memory! Girls who have been with us since we were girls (or boys) ourselves, and who will still be with us when we are old.

More on these wonderful literary heroines in later posts!

P.S. The painting is Girl Braiding her Hair by Albert Anker (1887)