Sisters and the English Household

<p><span data-sheets-value={"1":2"2":"'Sisters and the English Household' revalues unmarried adult sisters in nineteenth-century English literature as positive figures of legal and economic autonomy representing productive labour in the domestic space. As a crucial site of contested values the adult unmarried sister carries the discursive weight of sustained public debates about ideals of domesticity in nineteenth-century England."} data-sheets-userformat={"2":4737"3":[null0]"10":2"12":0"15":"arialsanssans-serif"}>'Sisters and the English Household' revalues unmarried adult sisters in nineteenth-century English literature as positive figures of legal and economic autonomy representing productive labour in the domestic space. As a crucial site of contested values the adult unmarried sister carries the discursive weight of sustained public debates about ideals of domesticity in nineteenth-century England.</span></p>