Table of Contents:
  • Family as context and content
  • The Victorian context : self, family, and society
  • The family context : writing as sibling relationship
  • Jane Eyre : the pilgrimage of the "poor orphan child"
  • Wuthering heights : the boundless passion of Catherine Earnshaw
  • Agnes Grey and the tenant of Wildfell Hall : lessons of the family
  • The professor and Shirley : industrial pollution of family relations and values
  • Villette : authorial regeneration and the death of the family
  • Life after Villette.