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Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-229) and index.
Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE The uncanny daughter: Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, and the progress of Little Nell; CHAPTER TWO Dombey and Son: the daughter's nothing; CHAPTER THREE Hard Times and A Tale of Two Cities: The social inheritance of adultery; CHAPTER FOUR Bleak House and the dead mother's property; CHAPTER FIVE Amy Dorrit's prison notebooks; CHAPTER SIX In the shadow of Satis House: The woman's story in Great Expectations; CHAPTER SEVEN Our Mutual Friend and the daughter's book of the dead; Notes; Index.
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The daughter in Dickens' fiction is considered not as an emblem of tranquil domesticity and the hearth-fire, but as a bearer of cultural values - and as a potentially disruptive force. The daughter's secret inheritance, her 'portion', is to give Dickens a way of reading and writing his own culture differently.