Rising Twenty
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In this book Miss Jephcott, author of Girls Growing Up, gives us a picture of 100 ordinary working-class girls in three very different parts of England. The one thing they have in common is that at the time of the study they were all over 17 and under 21. From the girls themselves the author has learned about the interests and thoughts of adolescents between the ages of 14 and 20, and the results of this study are very revealing. On the whole the girls, though limited in outlook and abilities, were good-hearted and kindly, their chief virtue being generosity and a thoughtfulness for younger children. Their lives provided very little in the way of resources for enjoyment and their experience tended to be extremely narrow. It was found that the girls were inclined to adopt a fixed
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