Bessie Marchant’s Turn-of-the-Century Girls’ Adventure Fiction in Special Collections and at the Edge of Empire

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dc.contributor.authorRaposo, Kalea Furmanek
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-19T07:22:49Z
dc.date.available2023-03-19T07:22:49Z
dc.date.copyright2023en_US
dc.date.issued2023-03-19
dc.description.abstractI analyze the complexity of Bessie Marchant’s pro-imperial rhetoric in her girls’ adventure novels held in UVic’s Special Collections. Her early 20th-century girls’ adventure novels Daughters of the Dominion: A Story of the Canadian Frontier (1908), Juliette the Mail Carrier (1907), and A Heroine of the Sea (1904) are set in Canada and follow a formulaic plot: circumstances prompt a young female protagonist to take charge of a situation—nursing someone back to health, delivering the mail, or investigating a murder—before she ultimately marries. Marchant thus affords her female protagonists opportunities for action while simultaneously circumscribing them within marriage plots, expanding readers’ ideas of women’s sphere while also reinforcing middle-class domestic ideals. Set in Canada, Marchant’s novels offer both adventure and social mobility that England’s conventions around class, aristocracy, and gender did not. Marchant thereby expands possibilities for girls’ action by turning education, domestic responsibility, and family expansion into adventures on par with the dangerous physical tasks that heroines undertake as part of the main adventure plots.en_US
dc.description.reviewstatusRevieweden_US
dc.description.scholarlevelUndergraduateen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipJamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Awards (JCURA)en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/14897
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectfictionen_US
dc.subjectfamilyen_US
dc.subjectadventureen_US
dc.subjectchildrenen_US
dc.subjectimperialismen_US
dc.subjectcolonialismen_US
dc.subjectnovelsen_US
dc.subjectgirlsen_US
dc.subjecttwentieth-centuryen_US
dc.titleBessie Marchant’s Turn-of-the-Century Girls’ Adventure Fiction in Special Collections and at the Edge of Empireen_US
dc.typePosteren_US

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