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Table of Contents

Celibate Marriages

Martha Vicinus
pp. 24-28
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2013.0054
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“Oh God, There is No Woman In This”: A Marriage Below Zero, the Somerset and Russell Scandals, and the Sodomitical Threat to Victorian Marriage

Richard A. Kaye
pp. 28-32
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2013.0058
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Motherly Concern

Dara Rossman Regaignon
pp. 32-35
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2013.0034
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Inconvenient Husbands and Superfluous Wives

Maia McAleavey
pp. 35-38
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2013.0038
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“Throwing the Wedding-Shoe”: Foundational Violence, Unhappy Couples, and Murderous Women

Marlene Tromp
pp. 39-43
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2013.0042
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Neither Fish nor Fowl: Children and Parents in Cross-Class Cohabitation

Ginger S. Frost
pp. 46-50
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2013.0047
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Excluding Heiresses

Elsie B. Michie
pp. 50-53
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2013.0052
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“Lifelong Soulmates?”: The Sibling Bond in Nineteenth-Century Fiction

Valerie Sanders
pp. 54-57
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2013.0057
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Adoption, Fostering, and the Poor

Claudia Nelson
pp. 57-61
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2013.0061
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Public Relations: Toward a Victorian Ideology of Service

Eve M. Lynch
pp. 64-68
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2013.0037
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Betwixt and Between: Mrs. Gummidge’s “Homely Rapture”

Karen Chase
pp. 68-71
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2013.0041
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The Emotional Extravagance of Victorian Pet-Keeping

Ivan Kreilkamp
pp. 71-74
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2013.0045
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Cousin Marriage, Then and Now

Mary Jean Corbett
pp. 74-78
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2013.0050
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Children of the Regiment: Soldiers, Adoption, and Military Tenderness in Victorian Culture

Holly Furneaux
pp. 79-96
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2013.0046
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Chemistry versus Biology: Dickens, Malthus, and the Familiarized Doppelgänger

Matthew Ingleby
pp. 97-113
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2013.0051
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Selective Affinities: Non-Normative Families in Wilkie Collins’s No Name

Vicky Simpson
pp. 115-128
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2013.0056
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Victorian Girls Gone Wild: Matrimonial Advertising and the Transformation of Courtship in the Popular Press

Jennifer Phegley
pp. 129-146
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2013.0060
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“Stories by Bits”: The Serial Family in Juliana Horatia Ewing’s Mrs. Overtheway’s Remembrances

Meghan Rosing
pp. 147-162
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2013.0036
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Far-Flung Families and Transient Domesticity: Missionary Households in Metropole and Colony

Esme Cleall
pp. 163-179
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2013.0040
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Lesbian Incest as Queer Kinship: Michael Field and the Erotic Middle-Class Victorian Family

Carolyn Tate
pp. 181-199
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2013.0044
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Children

Jessica Straley
pp. 202-207
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2013.0059
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Marriage

Ruth Bernard Yeazell
pp. 208-215
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2013.0035
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Relations

Eileen Cleere
pp. 215-220
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2013.0039
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Aging By the Book: The Emergence of Midlife in Victorian Britain by Kay Heath (review)

Esther Godfrey
pp. 220-222
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2013.0043
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Health, Medicine, and Society in Victorian England by Mary Wilson Carpenter (review)

Dara Rossman Regaignon
pp. 223-225
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2013.0048
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Victorian Bloomsbury by Rosemary Ashton (review)

Susan David Bernstein
pp. 225-227
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2013.0053
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Introduction: Extending Families

Kelly Hager, Talia Schaffer
pp. 7-21
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2013.0055
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Contributors

pp. 229-233
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2013.0049
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