A01=Barbara Z. Thaden
Agonizing Faith
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Author_Barbara Z. Thaden
Barbara Hare
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circles
Dead Mother
E Cl
Emotional Economy
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Fairy Tale
family law history
feminist literary criticism
gwendolen
Gwendolen Harleth
harleth
Il Ter
infant
Infant Custody Act
john
Ladies Lindores
Main Characters
Married Women
Maternal Circles
Maternal Voice
Mother's Love
mother-daughter relationships
nineteenth century social reform
nurse
Oedipal Triangle
Permanent Mother Substitute
Rl Ss
Sylvia's Mother
Ti Ti
Twentieth Century Mothers
Victorian Fiction
Victorian gender studies
Victorian motherhood representation in fiction
wet
Wet Nurse
Wife Access
women's legal rights
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780815327776
- Weight: 490g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Aug 1997
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This is the first full-length study to focus specifically on representations of motherhood in fiction by such Victorian writers as Elizabeth Gaskell, Margaret Oliphant, Caroline Norton, and Ellen Price Wood. These authors presented an idealized view of motherhood as part of a campaign to gain social and legal status for mothering in a society in which married women were not legal entities and children born in wedlock were the inalienable property of their fathers. These writers used dead mother plots which reversed New Testament parables so that the mother plays the leading role, and maternal circle plots, which portray adult daughters and their mothers raising children outside marriage. This fiction, which showed how children benefit from good mothering, was instrumental in married mothers eventually obtaining equal parental rights.
