Why read The Autobiography of a Tomboy?

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Renée Sentilles

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Gilder’s memoir of growing up in the 1860s as a boyish girl will seem remarkably contemporary to those who equate nineteenth-century girls and women with corsets and overly important etiquette. Gilder writes about baseball, pranks, and various attempts to look like a boy, confirming an instinctual tomboy identity even at a time when females could not legally wear pants.

From Renée's list on The best books on tomboys by a historian of tomboys.