Relations

By: Jane Miller

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Paperback | 15 October 2004 | Edition Number 1

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288 Pages

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'Thoughtful and scrupulous... a refreshing combination of emotional intimacy and intellectual detachment... this book is a celebration' - Sunday Telegraph

In this remarkable book, Jane Miller writes about the experience of being a daughter and a sister, about the intensities of family life and the illuminations that come from the last days of parents. Relations describes a record-keeping kinship and offers portraits of her parents' long marriage, its mysteries and incompatibilities, of her grandfather, the scientist Redcliffe Salaman, and of her great-aunt Clara Collet, one of the first women civil servants. It is a story in which Karl Marx and George Gissing have parts to play.

Here are the tensions of belonging and yet not belonging to an English middle-class at once hospitable to difference and internally divided. More than two hundred years of English history are present in these portraits, which show the dawning emancipation of women and the effects of empire on family life. It is the story of an evolution, of a move out of trade towards public service and the professions, and towards the dramas and family romance of recent times.

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The book's intelligence, wry humour and sense of history (particularly women's history) are compelling -- Blake Morrison * Guardian *
This is a book which arouses pleasurable reflection, evoking wonder at the extraordinary nature of what appears obvious, and the elusiveness of those closest to us * Independent *
Perfectly paced, intimate memoir * Women and Home *
I especially admired Jane Miller's Relations, an astute and skillful investigation into the author's family -- Michael Holyroyd * Guardian *

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