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This chapter will not be concerned with the mechanics of collaborative writing; it will instead selectively examine the work of siblings to discover to what extent their sense of writing 34 The Brother±Sister Culture in Nineteenth-Century Literature from within a mixed sex group affected their ability to transcend gender barriers, or whether they simply reinforced conventional codes. Romantic partnerships: the Lambs and the Wordsworths The Lambs and the Wordsworths separately reached a point in their lives when they set up house together and for a while adopted a `child'.
Harry calls her `Mrs Quick-Quick' (much as Tom Tulliver, similarly discomfited, will call Maggie `Miss Wisdom') though her father says she is ` ``what is vulgarly called birdwitted'' ' (II, 213). Edgeworth tries to preserve an intellectual balance between them, suggesting that in exchange for her poetic tastes, he imparts his love of science: the text meanwhile shuttles uneasily between scenes where Lucy is humbled, to others where she refuses to be put down. The book ends with Harry keen to invent something, and Lucy grateful for her parents' permission to `go on with Harry': when he was temporarily disabled by rescuing a child from a house fire, Lucy realized it was her ` ``greatest happiness to feel that he liked to have me with him always, reading and talking to him, and being interested in the sorts of things which he liked best'' ' (III, 311±12).
In most cases, there was something about the interaction of the sexes that was more fruitful of literary achievement than the same-sex partnership. To some extent, this meant sheer practical assistance, such as Dorothy Wordsworth was able to provide in acting as her brother's amanuensis, or Dante Gabriel Rossetti offered in approaching publishers on his sister's behalf; but there was a good deal more than this, which it is the object of this chapter to uncover. The brother±sister collaborative partnership of the Romantic or Victorian period cannot avoid to some extent being a model of gender-relations of the time, though it may also be atypical and transgressive.