The New Girls

1979 novel by Beth Gutcheon

This article is about the 1979 novel. For the television series, see New Girl.

First edition
(publ. G. P. Putnam's Sons)

The New Girls is a 1979 novel by American author Beth Gutcheon.

The novel, which describes the experiences of five young women in 1960s America,^[1] was based on Gutcheon's experiences at Miss Porter's School.^[2] Some characters experience anorexia over the course of the novel.^[3] It also describes the head of school's adverse reaction to the use of the term "diaphragm" in a student play.^[4]

Spieler likens it to works such as The Secret History , Gilmore Girls , and Gossip Girl , as all these texts revolve around an outsider entering into an elite boarding school environment.^[5]

Lisa Birnbach, in a follow-up to The Official Preppy Handbook , includes The New Girls on "the true prep master reading list".^[6]

References

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^ Torkildson, Sandi (1996). "HARPERPERENNIAL". Feminist Bookstore News: Feminist Bookstore News. 19 (2): 130. JSTOR community.28036375.
^ Carter, Graydon (August 15, 2017). Vanity Fair's Schools For Scandal: The Inside Dramas at 16 of America's Most Elite Campuses—Plus Oxford!. Simon and Schuster. p. 97. ISBN 978-1-5011-7374-5.
^ White 1985, p. 177.
^ White 1985, p. 186.
^ Spieler, Sophie (May 17, 2014). "Between Meritocracy and the Old Boy Network: Elite Education in Contemporary American Literature". Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies. 15 (1): 4. doi:10.5283/COPAS.186.
^ Birnbach, Lisa; Kidd, Chip (2010). True Prep: It's a Whole New Old World. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. p. 180. ISBN 978-0-307-59421-1. OCLC 668227883.

Sources

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White, Barbara Anne (1985). Growing Up Female: Adolescent Girlhood in American Fiction . Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN 9780313250651. OCLC 1149302332.

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