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259 q Index breeding, 137–38; between animals and humans, 117–18, 126, 137; between consanguineal and affinal kin, 66, 85; in The Mill on the Floss, 119–20, 140–42; between plants and humans, 117–18, 135, 137 Anderson, Nancy F., 65, 135, 214n64 Angel in the House, The (Patmore), 68 animal breeding, ix, 117, 119–120, 124–25, 130, 137–38; in The Mill on the Floss, 126–27 Antigone (Sophocles), 116, 196, 199, 206–8, 241n5 Armstrong, Isobel, 44 Armstrong, Nancy, 27, 33, 36, 88, 232n80 Arnold, Matthew, 14, 64, 228n25 Aurora Leigh (Barrett Browning), viii, 103 Austen, Jane, vii, ix–x, xii, 6, 29, 38, 55–56, 58–59, 81, 147, 205, 207; Emma, 31–2, 36, 39, 40; Mansfield Park, x, xii, 19, 34, 35–41, 45–56, 59–60, 83, 107, 109, 115, 148, 153–55, 156, 159, 169–70; Northanger Abbey, 30–32, 45–6, 79; Persuasion, 31, 32, 43, 44; Pride and Prejudice, 32–4, 35, 36, 38, 39, 45–46, 56, 68, 109; Sense and Sensibility, 34–35, 36, 39, 40, 41–45, 49, 51, 56, 74, 104, 109 Azim, Firdous, 95, 96, 100, 106, 225n30 Backus, Margot Gayle, 191 Barrett Browning, Elizabeth, viii, 103, 208 Beer, Gillian, 116, 117, 139, 158 Behrman, Cynthia Fansler, 61 Bell, Clive, 179–80, 236n13 Bell, Vanessa Stephen, 1–4, 177–78, 179–80, 181, 183–84, 211n4, 236nn10–11, 236n13 Bell, Vikki, 17 Bersani, Leo, 24–25, 28 bigamy, 103, 106 Acton, William, 7, 11 Adams, Maurianne, 107 adoption: as an analogue to marriage, x, 89, 92, 110; anthropological fictions of, xi, 87–92; in Brontë’s juvenilia, x–xi, 93–96, 157; as a colonizing practice, 95–96, 99; and concepts of affinity, 87, 89; and family membership, x, 21, 26–27, 60, 87–88, 96, 204, 205; as fictive kinship in Wives and Daughters, 147, 153, 154, 156– 58, 172; as grafting or hybridization, 157, 158; as a homosocial practice, 89–91; in Jane Eyre, 88–89, 103, 106; legal, 88, 205; in Mansfield Park, 50, 67; in “Mr. Gilfil’s Love Story,” 157; as trope of difference, 26, 67, 91; in Wuthering Heights, ix, 25–28 adoptive kin, 8, 21, 60; in the Brontë juvenilia, 96–97; in Jane Eyre, 88–89, 106–7; in Wives and Daughters, 155–56; in Wuthering Heights, 25–26 adultery, 48, 49. See also incestuous adultery affinal kin, x, 4, 8, 39–40, 44, 47, 59, 85. See also wife’s sister affinal marriage, vii, x, 4, 8–11, 17, 19–20, 38–39, 45–46, 87, 147 affinity, x, xii, 116, 204, 205; and consanguinity, 39, 67, 85, 86, 89, 108; as created by marriage, 39, 43–44, 59, 64–68, 85, 86–87, 104–5, 159, 167; definitions of, 4, 27, 64, 87, 111, 226n51; as inclination or attraction, 87–89, 108, 109–10, 156, 158; prohibited degrees of, 73; spiritual, xi, 27, 28, 128–29, 158, 226n54. See also “one flesh” and family membership agnatic kinship, 90–92, 98–99, 104, 108 analogy, 117, 147; in Adam Bede, 118–19; between adoption and marriage, 92, 110; as agent of fictive kinship in Wives and Daughters, xii, 60, 147, 156, 158–59, 172, 207; between animal and human 260 INDEX biological kinship, xi, xii, 5, 8, 24, 25, 26, 28, 38–39, 44, 55, 59, 87–91, 108–9, 116, 117, 148, 165, 202, 207. See also consanguineal kin birth family. See first family Bitter Cry of Outcast London, The (Mearns), 6, 188 Bivona, Daniel, 6 Blair, Emily, 150 blended family, 176; in Wives and Daughters, xii, 146–47, 153, 159, 163, 165 Bodenheimer, Rosemarie, 119, 141 Bodichon, Barbara, 117 Boiko, Karen, 146, 158 Bonaparte, Felicia, 168, 233n18 Boone, Joseph Allen, 25, 110, 111 Boumelha, Penny, 93, 101, 102, 105, 225n38 Braddon, Mary Elizabeth, viii Briggs, Julia, 185 Brontë, Branwell, 96 Brontë, Charlotte, vii, ix, x–xi, xii, 85, 116, 117, 147, 157, 158, 179, 205, 206, 208; “The African Queen’s Lament,” 93–95; CarolineVernon, 97; “The Foundling,” 100; “The Green Dwarf,” 93, 96; Jane Eyre, xi, 86, 88–89, 92–93, 94–96, 97, 101, 103–10, 112, 113–14; “A Leaf from an Unopened Volume,” 95, 97–101; The Professor, 225nn32, 38; “Roe Head Journal,” 97; Shirley, 86, 103, 239n54, 114; Villette, xi, 89, 95–96, 101–3, 110–14 Brontë, Emily, ix, 147, 205, 206; Wuthering Heights, ix, 5, 24–29, 48, 88, 94, 97, 109, 114, 115, 145...

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