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Brothers and sisters, Brothers and sisters in literature, Domestic fiction, English, English Domestic fiction, English fiction, History, History and criticism, English fiction, history and criticism, 19th century, Domestic fiction, history and criticism, English fiction, history and criticism, 20th century, Siblings in literature, SiblingsPlaces
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The brother-sister culture in nineteenth-century literature: from Austen to Woolf
2002, Palgrave
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0333749308 9780333749302
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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: Introduction
1 The Brother and Sister Culture
2 Brother-Sister Collaborative Relationships
Romantic partnerships: the Lambs
and the Wordsworths
Victorian partnerships: the Brontes
and the Rossettis
The Sitwell phenomenon
3 'One of the Highest Forms of Friendship':
Brother-Sister relationships in women's
autobiography
Margaret Oliphant and Elizabeth Sewell
Harriet and James Martineau
Conclusion
4 The Brother as Lover
Jane Austen and Mary Shelley
The Bronte novels
Family sagas of the 1860s
Dickens and George Eliot
Conclusion
5 The Family Revenge Novel
Early nineteenth-century Gothic representations
Dickens and L. P. Hartley: sisters in wheelchairs
Bertha Rochester: the mad sister in the attic
Bad Brothers: an introduction
Trollope and Oliphant
Protective Rivalry: Mary Cholmondeley
and William Hamilton
6 Changing Places: Siblings and Cross-Gendering
The Brontes
Walter Pater
Sarah Grand's Heavenly Twins
Eliza Lynn Linton's Christopher Kirkland
7 'Most Unwillingly Alive': Brothers and Sisters
in the First World War
Virginia Woolf
Vera Brittain and Rebecca West
Katherine Mansfield
Conclusion
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-217) and index.
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