Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

Mischievous tomboy Becky Sleeper reforms her foolish ways when her mother is stricken with paralysis.

"Running to Waste: The Story of a Tomboy" by George M. Baker is a charming and heartwarming tale that explores the adventures of a spirited young tomboy. Baker's narrative is filled with humor, wit, and a keen understanding of childhood, making it a delightful read for both young readers and those young at heart. As the story unfolds, readers are taken on a journey alongside the tomboy protagonist, allowing them to experience the joys, challenges, and growth that come with embracing one's true self. With its timeless themes of friendship, self-discovery, and the importance of being true to oneself, "Running to Waste" continues to resonate with readers of all ages.

This story occurs "when, on account of the defeat of Braddock, the frontiers of Pennsylvania were deluged in blood." It develops the "peculiar relations existing between the Quakers and the Indians." It also reveals the hardships and perils that the youth had to deal with in this period.--Preface

Starting with the figure of the bold, boisterous girl in the mid-19th century and ending with the “girl power” movement of the 1990’s, Tomboys is the first full-length critical study of this gender-bending code of female conduct. Michelle Abate uncovers the origins, charts the trajectory, and traces the literary and cultural transformations that the concept of “tomboy” has undergone in the United States. Abate focuses on literature including Louisa May Alcott's Little Women and Carson McCullers's The Member of the Wedding and films such as Peter Bogdanovich's Paper Moon and Jon Avnet's Fried Green Tomatoes. She also draws onlesser-known texts like E.D.E.N. Southworth's once wildly popular 1859 novel The Hidden Hand, Cold War lesbian pulp fiction, and New Queer Cinema from the 1990s. Tomboys also explores the gender and sexual dynamics of tomboyism, and offers intriguing discussions of race and ethnicity's role in the construction of the enduring cultural archetype. Abate’s insightful analysis provides useful, thought-provoking connections between different literary works and eras. The result demystifies this cultural phenomenon and challenges readers to consider tomboys in a whole new light.

Includes: College directory [giving the name, locality, course of study, faculty, and number of students, of 175 or more of the Principal collegiate institutions of the United States]. [Boston, Robert Bros. 1872-74]

This groundbreaking reference work presents more than 100 articles by 98 high-profile interdisciplinary scholars, covering all aspects of girls' roles in American society, past and present. In this comprehensive, readable, two volume encyclopedia, experts from a variety of disciplines contribute pieces to the puzzle of what it means—and what it has meant over the last 400 years—to be a girl in America. The portrait that emerges reveals deep differences in girls' experiences depending on socioeconomic context, religious and ethnic traditions, family life, schools, institutions, and the messages of consumer and popular culture. Girls have been commodified, idealized, trivialized, eroticized, and shaped by the powerful forces of popular culture, from Little Women to Barbie. Yet girls are also powerful co-creators of the culture that shapes them, often cleverly subverting it to their own purposes. From Pocahantas to punk rockers, girls have been an integral, if overlooked and undervalued, part of American culture.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.