Ventures into childland: Victorians, fairy tales, and femininity

Entering childhood : the double perspectives of generation and sex

Resisting growth : Ruskin's The king of the golden river

Growing up ironic : Thackeray's The rose and the ring

Mixing levity and the grave : MacDonald's "The light princess"

Expanding Alice : from Underground to Wonderland

Shrinking Alice : from Wonderland to Looking-glass land

Erasing borders : MacDonald's At the back of the north wind

Sundering women from boys : Ingelow's Mopsa the fairy

Razing male preserves : from "Goblin market" to Sing-Song

Avenging Alice : from Sing-Song to Speaking likenesses

Repairing female authority : Ewing's "Amelia and the dwarfs".