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A short coda brings the book to a close, briefly looking ahead to constructions of adolescent girlhood in the early decades of the twentieth century. In particular, it considers the girl characters of Virginia Woolf, and makes connections between these figures and the characteristics of adolescents in the fiction of the 1890s, the period in which Woolf herself was an adolescent girl. By offering a glimpse into the potential afterlife of the late Victorian adolescent girl, this postscript serves to reinforce the specific, peculiar nature of female adolescence as constructed in the late Victorian period.
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Rodgers, B. (2016). Coda: Voyaging Out. In: Adolescent Girlhood and Literary Culture at the Fin de Siècle. Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32624-5_7
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