I think Girl of the Limberlost is about a girl who pays for high school through her moth-collecting proceeds or something like that. Presumably the moths are allowed to be multi-colored! Presumably.
My project actually started as my senior thesis in college, "The New Girl: Reconciling Femininity and Independence in Girls' Literature, 1890-1915." But I got hooked on the various weirdnesses of the literature of the time period (most of these weirdnesses are less O.o than Porter's decision to write a eugenics tract in children's book form), so I've kept reading the books as they cross my path.
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Date: 2014-08-04 07:28 pm (UTC)My project actually started as my senior thesis in college, "The New Girl: Reconciling Femininity and Independence in Girls' Literature, 1890-1915." But I got hooked on the various weirdnesses of the literature of the time period (most of these weirdnesses are less O.o than Porter's decision to write a eugenics tract in children's book form), so I've kept reading the books as they cross my path.