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211 q Notes Preface 1. Helena Michie, Victorian Honeymoons: Journeys to the Conjugal (Cambridge, 2006). 2. Ruth Perry, Novel Relations: The Transformation of Kinship in English Literature and Culture, 1748–1818 (Cambridge, 2004). Chapter 1. Making and Breaking the Rules: An Introduction 1. Virginia Woolf, “Reminiscences,” in Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing, ed. Jeanne Schulkind (San Diego, 1985), 55, 57; hereafter cited in the text. 2. Most commentators on this episode strike the note of “scandal” without attending to context. Noel Annan, however, suggests that George’s opposition to the relationship was based on his concern for “the scandal—his career—Virginia’s marital prospects—his own marital prospects.” See Leslie Stephen: The GodlessVictorian (London,1984),122. Claudia Nelson provides a useful introduction to the issues I analyze here. Nelson, Family Ties inVictorian England (Westport, CT, 2007), 119–23. 3. Hansard 3 (Lords), vol. 214, col. 1902, 13 March 1873. 4. See Hermione Lee, Virginia Woolf (New York, 1997), 139. In “A Sketch of the Past,” Woolf referred to Vanessa’s “detesting...in particular Aunt Mary [Fisher, née Jackson], who had viciously interfered” in the affair with Jack. Moments of Being, 143;hereafter cited in the text. For the fictional scene between Katharine and her aunt, see Virginia Woolf, Night and Day (San Diego, 1973), 404–10. 5. Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (San Diego, 1981), 75. 6. Virginia Woolf, “22 Hyde Park Gate,” in Moments of Being, 177. 7. Sybil Wolfram, In-Laws and Outlaws: Kinship and Marriage in England (London , 1987), 43. 8. Ibid., 42. 9. Ibid., 43. 10. Judith Butler,Undoing Gender (London,2004),157;hereafter cited in the text. 11. Ellen Pollak, Incest and the English Novel, 1684–1814 (Baltimore, 2003), 187; hereafter cited in the text. 12. Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Volume I: An Introduction, trans. Robert Hurley (New York, 1978), 127; hereafter cited in the text. 13. Elizabeth Wilson, “‘Not in This House’: Incest, Denial, and Doubt in the White Middle Class Family,” Yale Journal of Criticism 8 (1995): 38, 41. 14. Rosemary Jann, “Darwin and the Anthropologists: Sexual Selection and its Discontents,” Victorian Studies 37 (1994): 287. 15. Andrew Mearns, The Bitter Cry of Outcast London, ed. Anthony S. Wohl (Leicester, 1970), 61. 16. Daniel Bivona and Roger B. Henkle, The Imagination of Class: Masculinity and theVictorian Urban Poor (Columbus, 2006), 1, emphasis in original. 17. George R. Sims, “How the Poor Live” and “Horrible London” (New York, 1984), 45. 18. Anthony S. Wohl, The Eternal Slum: Housing and Social Policy inVictorian London (Montreal, 1977), 217; First Report of the Commissioners on the Housing of the Working Classes [England and Wales] (Shannon, 1970), vol. 2, 100; hereafter cited as CHWC. 19. Quoted in John Hollingshead, Ragged London in 1861 (New York, 1985), 233. 20. Edwin Chadwick, Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain, ed. M. W. Flinn (Edinburgh, 1965), 88, 192, 190. 21. Ibid., 191, 193, 423. 22. Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil; or, The Two Nations, ed. Sheila M. Smith (Oxford, 1986), 172. 23. Judith R. Walkowitz, City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London (Chicago, 1992), 18. 24. Polly Morris, “Incest or Survival Strategy? Plebeian Marriage within the Prohibited Degrees in Somerset, 1730–1835,” in Forbidden History: The State, Society, and the Regulation of Sexuality in Modern Europe, ed. John C. Fout (Chicago, 1992), 139. 25. William Acton, Prostitution, Considered in its Moral, Social, & Sanitary Aspects, in London and Other Large Cities: with Proposals for the Mitigation and Prevention of its Attendant Evils (1870), 3d ed., ed. Peter Fryer (New York, 1968), 130. 26. Hansard 4 (Lords), vol. 42, col. 1199, 10 July 1896. 27. Seth Koven,Slumming:Sexual and Social Politics inVictorian London (Princeton, 2004), 61. 28. Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, vol. 4, ed. John D. Rosenberg (New York, 1968), 259. 29. First Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the State and Operation of the Law of Marriage as Relating to the Prohibited Degrees of Affinity, and to Marriages Solemnised Abroad or in the British Colonies (Shannon, 1969), 77, ix; hereafter cited in the text. 30. Alexander James Beresford-Hope,The Report of Her Majesty’s Commission on the Laws of Marriage, Relative to Marriage with a Deceased Wife’s Sister (London, 1849), 149. 31. Incestuous adultery was and remained, even after the passage of the MDWS Bill in 1907 and the Punishment of Incest Act in 1908, “one of the few...

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