"Tha'lt be like a blush-rose when tha' grows up, my little lass": English cultural and gendered identity in The Secret Garden

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 59-78

  Morris, Mandy S ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL ANALYSIS; GENDER RELATIONS; HODGSON BURNETT,F.; LANDSCAPE INTERPRETATION; LITERATURE REVIEW; PERCEPTION;

EID: 0029798312     PISSN: 02637758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/d140059     Document Type: Article

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