![]() ![]() Victorian literature, the area of my expertise, is replete with examples of troubled maternal figures, and they tell us much about nineteenth-century social and cultural life. ![]() in English Language and Literature at University College London. In its exploration of the maternal experience, parent-child relationships, and sibling relations, Conan Doyle’s story is at home in the Mapping Maternal Subjectivities, Identities and Ethics network, a project on which I am proud to have worked as an intern while completing my Ph.D. ![]() The story advocates better communication amongst the Fergusons, between husband and wife, and between parents and children, for the family’s regeneration. In this article, I examine Arthur Conan Doyle’s treatment of motherhood in ‘The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire’ (1924) and, in so doing, argue for the insights that it imparts on the mature writer’s creative vision. ![]()
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