Dr Eleanor Spencer-Regan

Principal, Janet Clarke Hall; Honorary Senior Fellow, School of Culture and Communication, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne

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Why children’s stories are full of orphans, evil stepmothers and boarding schools

While ideas of family are changing, from Charles Dickens to Harry Potter, absent parents endure in children’s literature