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Waters's Affinity.(Sarah Waters)

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From: The Explicator
Date: 20070101
Author:Stevenson, Sheryl

Bringing to life the class-stratified world of 1870s London, a time when spiritualism had an immense vogue, Sarah Waters's Affinity challenges the myth of women's sisterhood--their "affinity" on levels beyond worldly divisions of class and education. To expose this myth, Waters evokes Elizabeth Barrett Browning's radical union of two women, the marriage-defying cohabitation of privileged writer Aurora Leigh and working-class outcast Marian Erle. Claiming kinship with the unwed mother she rescues, Aurora famously urges, "Come with me, sweetest sister," while she also asserts their ...

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