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Introduction: Redressing the School Story, Crossgendering a Genre * Before Tom Brown Anxious Proxies and Independent Girls: Charles Lamb and Other Early Men * The First Tom Brown: Dorothy Kilner and Other Early Women * Telling Tales about telling Tales: E.J. May and Other Talebearers * At Midcentury: Mary Martha Sherwood and Other Transitional Women * During the Heyday of the Canonical storyCrossing Gender with Race: Edward Everett Hale and Other U.S. Writers * Crossing Gender with Ethnicity: Elizabeth Eiloart and Other British Writers * Sensationalizing the School Story: Ellen Wood * Domesticating the School Story: Louisa May Alcott * Engendering the School Story: Julia A. Mathews * In the Twentieth CenturyPolicing the Borders * Satirizing the State: H.G. Wells and other Female Impersonators * Approaching High Seriousness: D. Wynne Willson and Other Recent Women. Index. Bibliography.