Chris Roulston is Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies and French Studies at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. Her interests include the history of sexuality, queer theory, boarding school literature, marriage literature, and Anne Lister. She is the co-editor of Decoding Anne Lister: From the Archives to “Gentleman Jack” (with Caroline Gonda, 2023).

• Acknowledgments; Introduction: Girls’ Boarding Schools and Their Queer Nostalgic Imaginings; Part I: Inside Britain: Protestants and Catholics; 1. National Belonging and Queer Disavowal in Rosemary Manning’s The Chinese Garden; 2. Queering Catholicism in Antonia White’s Frost in May; Part II: Britain, India, and the Colonial Imagination; 3. Re-imagining the Girls’ Boarding School Archive: Eliza Raine, Anne Lister, and Emma Donoghue’s Learned by Heart; 4. Lesbian Desire and Postcolonial Reflections in Nayana Currimbhoy’s Miss Timmins’ School for Girls; Part III: Britain, Australia, and Postcolonial (Im)possibilities; 5. Joan Lindsay’s Queer Times: Picnic at Hanging Rock; 6. Lesbian Disruption in K. Patrick’s Mrs. S; Conclusion: Telling School Tales; Selected Girls’ Boarding School Fiction; Selected Girls’ Boarding School Films and Television Series; Works Cited; Index

Chris Roulston is Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies and French Studies at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. Her interests include the history of sexuality, queer theory, boarding school literature, marriage literature, and Anne Lister. She is the co-editor of Decoding Anne Lister: From the Archives to “Gentleman Jack” (with Caroline Gonda, 2023).

• Acknowledgments; Introduction: Girls’ Boarding Schools and Their Queer Nostalgic Imaginings; Part I: Inside Britain: Protestants and Catholics; 1. National Belonging and Queer Disavowal in Rosemary Manning’s The Chinese Garden; 2. Queering Catholicism in Antonia White’s Frost in May; Part II: Britain, India, and the Colonial Imagination; 3. Re-imagining the Girls’ Boarding School Archive: Eliza Raine, Anne Lister, and Emma Donoghue’s Learned by Heart; 4. Lesbian Desire and Postcolonial Reflections in Nayana Currimbhoy’s Miss Timmins’ School for Girls; Part III: Britain, Australia, and Postcolonial (Im)possibilities; 5. Joan Lindsay’s Queer Times: Picnic at Hanging Rock; 6. Lesbian Disruption in K. Patrick’s Mrs. S; Conclusion: Telling School Tales; Selected Girls’ Boarding School Fiction; Selected Girls’ Boarding School Films and Television Series; Works Cited; Index

Chris Roulston is Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies and French Studies at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. Her interests include the history of sexuality, queer theory, boarding school literature, marriage literature, and Anne Lister. She is the co-editor of Decoding Anne Lister: From the Archives to “Gentleman Jack” (with Caroline Gonda, 2023).

• Acknowledgments; Introduction: Girls’ Boarding Schools and Their Queer Nostalgic Imaginings; Part I: Inside Britain: Protestants and Catholics; 1. National Belonging and Queer Disavowal in Rosemary Manning’s The Chinese Garden; 2. Queering Catholicism in Antonia White’s Frost in May; Part II: Britain, India, and the Colonial Imagination; 3. Re-imagining the Girls’ Boarding School Archive: Eliza Raine, Anne Lister, and Emma Donoghue’s Learned by Heart; 4. Lesbian Desire and Postcolonial Reflections in Nayana Currimbhoy’s Miss Timmins’ School for Girls; Part III: Britain, Australia, and Postcolonial (Im)possibilities; 5. Joan Lindsay’s Queer Times: Picnic at Hanging Rock; 6. Lesbian Disruption in K. Patrick’s Mrs. S; Conclusion: Telling School Tales; Selected Girls’ Boarding School Fiction; Selected Girls’ Boarding School Films and Television Series; Works Cited; Index