Author: Charlotte Mary Yonge
Publisher:
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Category : Domestic fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 514

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Author: Charlotte Mary Yonge
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368855794
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 494

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

Author: Yonge
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Languages : en
Pages : 310

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Author: Charlotte M. Yonge
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 551

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This is a novel about a young woman named Albinia Ferrars who marries a widower, Mr. Kendal, and becomes stepmother to his three children. The novel explores the challenges that Albinia faces as she adjusts to her new role as a stepmother, and the relationships between Albinia, Mr. Kendal, and his children. The novel also touches upon themes such as family, love, duty, and societal expectations.

Author: Rachelle Katz
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1426854897
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 299

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You found the love of your life, and you vowed to have, to hold and to stepmother. You always thought that in time you'd grow to be the perfect, loving family. So why does it seem that the harder you try, the more unappreciated you feel? As a stepmother, therapist and founder of the popular Web site stepsforstepmothers.com, Dr. Rachelle Katz knows all too well how challenging stepmotherhood can be. Based on thousands of in-depth interviews and the latest research, she's created a powerful program to help you: * Alleviate stress and take care of yourself * Bond with your new family * Set and enforce clear boundaries * Get the respect you deserve * Strengthen your relationship

Author: George Payne Rainsford James
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Languages : en
Pages : 376

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Languages : en
Pages : 1242

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Author: Elizabeth Thiel
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135861153
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 317

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The myth of the Victorian family remains a pervasive influence within a contemporary Britain that perceives itself to be in social crisis. Nostalgic for a golden age of "Victorian values" in which visions of supportive, united families predominate, the common consciousness, exhorted by social and political discourse, continues to vaunt the "traditional, natural" family as the template by which all other family forms are gauged. Yet this fantasy of family, nurtured and augmented throughout the Victorian era, was essentially a construct that belied the realities of a nineteenth-century world in which orphanhood, fostering, and stepfamilies were endemic. Focusing primarily on British children's texts written by women and drawing extensively on socio-historic material, The Fantasy of Family considers the paradoxes implicit to the perpetuation of the domestic ideal within the Victorian era and offers new perspectives on both nineteenth-century and contemporary society.

Author: Leslie J. Lindenauer
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739166824
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 175

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Stories of the stepmother, the substitute mother, or the “other mother” have infused popular culture for centuries and continue to do so today. She plays a substantial role in our collective imagination, whether we are a part of a step family or not. Despite the fact that the stepmother remains a prevalent figure, both in popular culture and reality, scholars have largely avoided addressing this fraught figure. I Could Not Call Her Mother explores representations of the stepmother in American popular culture from the colonial period to 1960. The archetypal stepmother appears from nineteenth-century romance novels and advice literature to 1930s pulp fiction and film noir. Leslie J. Lindenauer argues that when considered in her historic context, the stepmother serves as a bellwether for changing constructions of motherhood and family. She examines popular culture's role in shaping and reflecting an increasingly normative middle class definition of the ideal mother and family, which by the 1920s became the dominant construct. Lindenauer adds to the rich and growing literature on the history of motherhood. It echoes and is informed by the scholarship that has defined ideal motherhood as a moving target, historically constructed. In so doing, it illuminates the relationship between ideal motherhood and ideal womanhood.