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INTRODUCTION CHAPTER ONE Redefining the Past CHAPTER TWO Snatched From "The Seed-plot" of Degeneracy: The "rescue" of the destitute child in tales of street arab life CHAPTER THREE Forever Cursed: Stepmothers, "otherness" and the reinscription of myth in transnormative family narratives CHAPTER FOUR "Uncles are one thing…[but] aunts are always nasty!": Relational failures and the discourse of gender bias in foster family stories CHAPTER FIVE Mother, Ally, Friend – or Foe? : The "dependable" female author as one of the family CONCLUSION Into the Future: The enduring potency of the nineteenth-century domestic ideal APPENDIX LIST OF WORKS CITED NOTES INDEX