Family as context and content. - The Victorian context : self, family, and society. - The family context : writing as sibling relationship. - Jane Eyre : the pilgrimage of the "poor orphan child". - Wuthering heights : the boundless passion of Catherine Earnshaw. - Agnes Grey and the tenant of Wildfell Hall : lessons of the family. - The professor and Shirley : industrial pollution of family relations and values. - Villette : authorial regeneration and the death of the family. - Life after Villette
