The Girton Girl’s “academical home”: Girton College in the Late-Victorian Periodical Press

Late-Victorian magazine articles about Girton College usually discussed the school’s history and the lives of “Girton Girls,” but they also often emphasized the school’s architecture and décor. This essay argues that part of the periodical audience’s fascination with Girton was its status as an aesthetic (and Aesthetic) heterotopic space—at once domestic and public, following popular taste while setting a radical new precedent for women’s sphere.