Re: Collins' The Woman in White. I can't remember how Laura Fairlie's mother vanishes from the narrative. I'm assuming that she dies at some point in Laura's childhood but I can't remember reading that. All I recall about her is in those letters about Anne Catherick -- no mention of her dying at that point though. Anyone remember?
I don't have time to flip through this 700 page behemoth looking for the reference/explanation so I'm going to hope someone out there has read it more attentively than I have.
I'm charting the effect of the partial/broken family on the heroines of a couple 19th c sensationalist novels. I'm finding lots of hopelessly inadequate father figures & mother figures who are mostly absent. Maybe the fact that Laura's mother is so absent that I can't even recall where she goes off to is telling in itself.
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I'll check back later... if this doesn't pan out, I'll just gesture vaguely to Laura's mother's absence and move on to another point. T.I.A.
(Paper's due tomorrow at 4pm. HEH.)