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“She was a kinswoman of the queen, a member of the most powerful family in England. A Boleyn.”

— V.E. Lynne

“There was a numerous family; but the only two grown up, excepting Charles, were Henrietta and Louisa, young ladies of nineteen and twenty, who…

— Jane Austen

“It was true that the elders found everything changing all about them with a precipitation which was leaving them stripped of authority. The girls…

— Gabriel Chevallier

“She rattled around that huge house, growing more and more used to being on her own, resenting his presence more and more when he…

— Jane Green

“The closest she had been to them was certain summer evenings when they had gone for picnics in the magravine's ice-barge -- simple family…

— Philip Reeve

“If it’s a draw between a baby and Henry, I’ll kick his ornery butt all the way to the fancy house in Jacksboro and…

— Catherine Anderson

“There was something that charmed her in the fact that her brother, the one true worldling in the whole tribe of Boughtons, seemed to…

— Marilynne Robinson

“For more than half a century they belonged to one another. She detested the same characteristics in him that last day as she had…

— Fredrik Backman

“She sat them down with bottles of water and went to the nearest houses where she had been raiding. She came back with a…

— Meg Elison

“We heard bandits return several nights after that, but they never again entered the house. It wasn't until after the war that I learned…

— Darlene Deibler Rose

In the bosom of her respectable family resided Camilla.

— Fanny Burney

“The Queen’s family never understood that he had provided her with the companionship over the last decade of her life, which they themselves had…

— Shrabani Basu