Historians and literary critics have long understood the crucial significance of the family to the nineteenth-century middle-class sensibility, but almost all c

Based on a wealth of family papers, period images, and popular literature, this is the first book devoted to the broad history of sibling relations in America.

The sibling stands out as a ubiquitous—yet unacknowledged—conceptual touchstone across the European long nineteenth century. Beginning in the late eighteent

Sisters and the English Household revalues unmarried adult sisters in nineteenthcentury English literature as positive figures of legal and economic autonomy re

This study argues that feminist collaboration was vital to women's successful infiltration of the marketplace at the end of the nineteenth century and Edwardian