Family Likeness: Sex, Marriage, and Incest from Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf by Mary Jean, Mary Jean Corbett

Family Likeness: Sex, Marriage, and Incest from Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf

Mary Jean, Mary Jean Corbett

280 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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In nineteenth-century England, marriage between first cousins was both legally permitted and perfectly acceptable. After mid-century, laws did not explicitly penalize sexual relationships between parents and children, between siblings, or between ...

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