Angels and Absences: Child Deaths in the Nineteenth Century by Laurence Lerner

Author:Laurence Lerner [Lerner, Laurence]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Modern, 19th Century, Social Science, Death & Dying, test
ISBN: 9780826512871
Google: 2NlZAAAAMAAJ
Amazon: 0826512879
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: 1997-04-01T16:00:00+00:00

Muriel is born blind, so from the outset she is an object of pity: she is her father's first and favorite child, bears her affliction without complaint, and is a cheerful and loving daughter. The first hint of her death comes in chapter 25:

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"Is Muriel anxious to be grown up? Is she not satisfied with being my little daughter always?" "Always."

Her father drew her to him, and kissed her soft, shut, blind eyes.

The difficulty of accepting that children grow up and leave the nest is treated in later chapters, when the sons fall in love and quarrel, and the point implied in this exchange is, of course, that dying young is the only way to remain a child.

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