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Bêthberry · 08-20-2005, 09:23 AM

It is an interesting topic, Helen.

There's orphans aplenty in Victorian literature. Pip in Great Expectations for one. Jane Eyre for another. Earlier on, Tom Jones was a foundling. Well, really an illegitimate child abandoned because of the mores of the time. They don't have a very good time of it. except for Tom of course. (I wonder, what 'baggage' does the name 'Tom' carry?)

But then Cinderella was an orphan, wasn't she? or just motherless? Snow White? Could this also be part of the fairy heritage?

08-20-2005, 09:23 AM	#3
Bêthberry Cryptic Aura Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 6,003	It is an interesting topic, Helen. There's orphans aplenty in Victorian literature. Pip in Great Expectations for one. Jane Eyre for another. Earlier on, Tom Jones was a foundling. Well, really an illegitimate child abandoned because of the mores of the time. They don't have a very good time of it. except for Tom of course. (I wonder, what 'baggage' does the name 'Tom' carry?) But then Cinderella was an orphan, wasn't she? or just motherless? Snow White? Could this also be part of the fairy heritage? __________________ I’ll sing his roots off. I’ll sing a wind up and blow leaf and branch away.