Empowered by Nature? The child-heroines in Lucy Maud Montgomery's novels "Emily of New Moon" and "Anne of Green Gables" and 'The Green-World Archetype'

Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg (Institut für Anglistik), course: Children's Literature, language: English, abstract: In her book The Second Sex (Beauvoir 1953: 362) the world-famous French philosopher and feminist Simone de Beauvoir writes that “[t]he adolescent girl will ...