In 18th through 20th-century British and American literature,
school stories always play out the power relationships between
adult and child. They also play out gender relationships,
especially when females are excluded, although most histories of
the genre ignore the unusual novels that probe the gendering of
school stories. When the occasional man wrote about girls
schools-as Charles Lamb and H. G. Wells did-he sometimes empowered
his female characters, granting them freedoms that he had
experienced at school.
Women who wrote about boys' schools often gave unusual emphasis to
families, and at times, revealed the contradictions in the
schoolyard code against telling tales or presented competing
versions of masculinity, such as the Christian gentleman versus the
self-made man. Sometimes these middle-class white women projected
their sense of estrangement onto working class and minority women.
Sometimes they wrote school stories that were in dialog with other
genres, as when Mrs. Henry Wood wrote a sensation story or, like
Louisa May Alcott, they domesticated the boys school story, giving
prominence to a female viewpoint.
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