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  title info:
    title: Great literary sisters
  name:
    name part: Phillips, Janet (Janet C.)
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2026
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    form: regular print
    extent: 200 pages ; 20 cm
  abstract: Sisterly relationships feature prominently in some of our best-loved classic literature. Sisters can be best friends, mother figures, rivals, heroes, sounding boards or partners in crime, depending on literary genre, era, or the demands of plot. They can bring into focus the changing roles of women in society, especially in literature that predates the 20th century, such as Middlemarch, The Woman in White and The Old Wives' Tale. Their bonds with younger or older siblings, like those of Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy in Little Women, are often complex and nuanced, and occasionally devastating. This book explores the role of sisters in 20 individual entries, each one providing a synopsis and analysis of the work in question. Including writers as diverse as Charles Dickens, E.M. Forster, J.D. Salinger, Toni Morrison and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, it makes the perfect read for book-loving sisters whatever their connection.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Growing up -- Heroes at home -- Affairs of the heart -- Trauma -- To the rescue.
  note: Janet Phillips.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Fiction
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Sisters in literature
  subject:
    topic: Roman
    topic: Histoire et critique
  subject:
    topic: Sœurs dans la littérature
  subject:
    topic: Fiction
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Sisters in literature
  subject:
    topic: Literature
  classification: PN56.5.B74 P45 2026
  classification: 809.9335255
  identifier: 9781851246212
  identifier: 1851246215
  record info:
    record content source: UKMGB
    record creation date: 260227
    record change date: 20260624155814.0
    record identifier: in00005789222
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng