Marianne Dreams, The Secret Garden and the Stifled Female Quest

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  • Shelley O'Hearn

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21153/pecl1998vol8no1art1380

Keywords:

loss of female autonomy, fantasy fiction, feminism, symbolism, F.H. Burnett, gender role, Catherine Storr

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1998-01-01

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“Marianne Dreams, The Secret Garden and the Stifled Female Quest” (1998) Papers: Explorations into Children’s Literature, 8(1), pp. 36–44. doi:10.21153/pecl1998vol8no1art1380.

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