Further Reading

A selection of printed books about the Girl's Own Paper. Please note that a number of these titles have gone out-of-print since the list was first compiled, but may still be available through second-hand book dealers. If you have any suggested additions to this list, do please contact us.

• Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print: Women's Literary Responses to the Great War 1914–1918
  By Jane Potter; Oxford University Press, USA, 2005.
• Flora Klickmann and her Flower Patch: The Story of "The Girl's Own Paper" and the Flower Patch Among the Hills
  By David Lazell; Flower Patch Magazine, 1976.
• From the Dairyman's Daughter to Worrals of the WAAF: The RTS, Lutterworth Press and Children's Literature
  By Dennis Butts and Pat Garrett (editors); The Lutterworth Press, 2006.
• Girl's Own Guide: An Index of All the Fiction Stories Ever to Appear in the Girl's Own Paper from 1880–1941
  By E. Honor Ward; A.&B. Whitworth, 1992
• Girls, Boys, Books, Toys: Gender in Children's Literature and Culture
  By Beverly Lyon Clark and Margaret R. Higonnet (editors); The Johns Hopkins University Press; New Edition, 2000
• Great-Grandmama's Weekly: A Celebration of the Girl's Own Paper, 1880–1901
  By Wendy Forrester; The Lutterworth Press, 1980 (out-of-print).
• A Magazine of Her Own?
  By Margare Beetham; Routledge, 1996.
• Selections from The Girls Own Paper, 1880–1907
  By Terri Doughty (editor); Broadview Press, reprinted 2004.

The Lutterworth Press also publishes a number of titles relating to 19th and 20th century children's literature.

• Children's Literature and Social Change: Some Case Studies from Barbara Hofland to Philip Pullman
  By Dennis Butts; The Lutterworth Press, 2010.
• A Complete Identity: The Youthful Hero in the Work of G.A. Henty and George MacDonald
  By R.E. Johnson; The Lutterworth Press, 2014 (eBook also available).
• From Morality to Mayhem: The Fall and Rise of the English School Story
  By Julian Lovelock; The Lutterworth Press, 2018 (eBook also available).
• How Did Long John Silver Lose his Leg?: and Twenty-Six Other Mysteries of Children's Literature
  By Dennis Butts and Peter Hunt; The Lutterworth Press, 2013 (eBook also available).
• The Making of Swallows and Amazons (1974)
  By Sophie Neville; The Lutterworth Press, 2017 (eBook also available).
• Swallows, Amazons and Coots: A Reading of Arthur Ransome
  By Julian Lovelock; The Lutterworth Press, 2016 (eBook also available).
• Take a Cold Tub, Sir!: The Story of the 'Boy's Own Paper'
  By Jack Cox; The Lutterworth Press, 1982.
• Why Was Billy Bunter Never Really Expelled?: and another Twenty-Five Mysteries of Children's Literature
  By Dennis Butts and Peter Hunt; The Lutterworth Press, 2019 (eBook also available).