Abstract By zooming in on the Girl’s Own Paper (GOP), this essay demonstrates how the production and dissemination of shared domestic cultures are directed at adolescent girls through esthetic practices of furnishing and decorating the home. The essay aims to contextualize the role of household art in the relationship between female adolescence and bourgeois domestic interiors in fin de siècle Britain. The relationship reveals three important aspects of domestic cultures: household art, do-it-yourself crafts, and material collecting. First, the GOP advises adolescent girls to read and interpret the language of household art through selection and placing, which, in turn, facilitates the construction of the textuality of interior furnishings. The GOP’s esthetic theory, an integral part of educating and improving girls’ taste, functions to enhance their room-layout skills and also construct their architectural identities. Second, adolescent girls are credited with the active role of young home-makers in the GOP. The practice of amateur upholstery shapes female youth’s artistic self-expression and manifests their autonomous control over the making of home-crafted objects. And thirdly, the act of collecting furniture pieces and decorative items functions to address the various components of a room alongside contemporary social concerns about good taste. The accumulation of artifacts allows girls to achieve a sense of materiality and ownership contained within the domestic sphere. Home decoration in general provides a focal point for understanding how the familial space becomes the site of adolescent girls’ artistic labor and household elegancies.

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“我们的艺术之家”：少女自己纸上的青春期女孩和家庭室内设计

摘要 通过放大女孩自己的论文（GOP），本文展示了共享家庭文化的生产和传播如何通过布置和装饰家庭的美学实践针对青春期女孩。这篇文章旨在将家庭艺术在世纪末英国女性青春期与资产阶级家庭室内装饰之间的关系中的作用置于语境中。这种关系揭示了家庭文化的三个重要方面：家庭艺术、自己动手做的工艺品和材料收集。首先，共和党建议少女通过选择和放置来阅读和解释家居艺术的语言，这反过来又促进了室内陈设的文本性构建。共和党的审美理论，教育和提高女孩品味的一个组成部分，功能以提高他们的房间布局技能，并构建他们的建筑身份。其次，青春期少女在共和党中扮演了年轻的家庭主妇的积极角色。业余室内装潢的实践塑造了女性青年的艺术自我表达，体现了她们对自制物品制作的自主控制。第三，收集家具和装饰品的行为可以解决房间的各个组成部分以及当代社会对品味的关注。文物的积累让女孩们获得了家庭领域内的物质感和主人翁感。一般而言，家居装饰为理解家庭空间如何成为少女艺术劳动和家庭优雅的场所提供了一个焦点。