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INTRODUCTION CHAPTER ONE Redefining the Past Part One: Theory and TheFamily Part Two: Transnormative Families -- Causes and Effects CHAPTER TWOSnatched From "The Seed-plot" of Degeneracy: The "rescue" of the destitutechild in tales of street arab life Drunk and Disorderly: The negligentmother in Hesba Stretton's Jessica's First Prayer (1867), Jessica's Mother(1867) and Lost Gip (1873) "Motherless, Fatherless and Friendless":Portraits of the orphan in Brenda's Nothing to Nobody (1873) and Froggy'sLittle Brother (1875) CHAPTER THREE Forever Cursed: Stepmothers,"otherness" and the reinscription of myth in transnormative familynarratives The Precarious Nature of Home Sweet Home: Lucy Lane Clifford's"The New Mother" (1882) A Subtly Subversive Approach: HarrietChilde-Pemberton's Birdie A Tale of Child-Life (1888) Discordant Voices:Filial jealousy and authorial "compromise" in Caroline Birley's We Are Seven(1880) The Folly of Voluntary Slavery: Charlotte M. Yonge's The YoungStep-mother or A Catalogue of Mistakes (1861) CHAPTER FOUR "Uncles are onething![but] aunts are always nasty!": Relational failures and the discourseof gender bias in foster family stories Negative Influences and FamilialDiscord: Mary Louisa Molesworth's Rosy (1882) Usurping the Mother: HarrietChilde-Pemberton's "All My Doing; or, Red Riding Hood Over Again" (1882)The Archetype of the "Good, Kind Uncle": Catherine Sinclair's Holiday House:A Book for the Young (1839) In Sinclair's Footsteps: Brenda's "Lotty andGeorgie" books and the man with the yellow moustache CHAPTER FIVE Mother,Ally, Friend -- or Foe? : The "dependable" female author as one of thefamily Part One: Women's Work Part Two: A Multiplicity of Voices Mrs.Molesworth: A friend to all An All-Embracing Motherhood: Brenda and theparenting of the poor Firm but Fair: Charlotte M. Yonge as maiden aunt LucyLane Clifford: The voice of Mother Goose CONCLUSION Into the Future: Theenduring potency of the nineteenth-century domestic ideal APPENDIX LIST OFWORKS CITED NOTES INDEX