Table of Contents: “…Launched into the ocean of life: navigating the transition to womanhood in 1850s fiction -- The transitional stage theatrical girlhood in 1870s fiction -- Coming out: passages to womanhood in British and Anglo-Indian fiction, 1880-1894 -- On the threshhold : female adolescent experience in the fiction of the fin de siècle -- A scant but quite ponderable germ: girls growth in Henry James' The awkward age.…”