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Unattached Women Raising Cain: Spinsters Touching Orphans in Anne of Green Gables and Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Unattached Women Raising Cain: Spinsters Touching Orphans in Anne of Green Gables and Uncle... h olly Bla c K f ord u nattache D w omen r a I s I n G c a I n: sPI nsters t ouch I n G o r P hans I n Anne of Green G A bles an D u ncle tom’ s c A bin “It is your system makes such children,” said Miss Ophelia. “I know it; but they are made,—they Not only does exist,—and what is to be done with them?” the analogy of —Harriet Beecher Sto we, the slave orphan Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 236 underscore Anne’s Justas abolitionist author Harriet Beec her entrapment in Stowe urged readers of Uncle Tom’s Cabin a system that to “feel right” and abolish slavery one re- traffics children formed conscience at a time, so, too, authorssho wed how adopting a child re- and bears visceral forms the nation one family at a time. prejudice; the —Carol Singley, A dopting America: Childhood, Kinship, and National parallel growth Identity in Literature, 86 in the spinsters, who assert their L. M. Montgomery’s 1908 Anne of Green Gables independence and establishes Anne Shirley as an active participant in many literary traditions.Anne is an expressive empower them- reader who http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Southern Literary Journal University of North Carolina Press

Unattached Women Raising Cain: Spinsters Touching Orphans in Anne of Green Gables and Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Blackford, Holly
The Southern Literary Journal , Volume 51 (1) – Dec 9, 2019
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h olly Bla c K f ord u nattache D w omen r a I s I n G c a I n: sPI nsters t ouch I n G o r P hans I n Anne of Green G A bles an D u ncle tom’ s c A bin “It is your system makes such children,” said Miss Ophelia. “I know it; but they are made,—they Not only does exist,—and what is to be done with them?” the analogy of —Harriet Beecher Sto we, the slave orphan Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 236 underscore Anne’s Justas abolitionist author Harriet Beec her entrapment in Stowe urged readers of Uncle Tom’s Cabin a system that to “feel right” and abolish slavery one re- traffics children formed conscience at a time, so, too, authorssho wed how adopting a child re- and bears visceral forms the nation one family at a time. prejudice; the —Carol Singley, A dopting America: Childhood, Kinship, and National parallel growth Identity in Literature, 86 in the spinsters, who assert their L. M. Montgomery’s 1908 Anne of Green Gables independence and establishes Anne Shirley as an active participant in many literary traditions.Anne is an expressive empower them- reader who

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Published: Dec 9, 2019

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