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Sisters have fascinated writers forever—Pride and Prejudice, Cold Comfort Farm, Women In Love, Atonement, The Poisonwood Bible, and The Virgin Suicides—there’s a rich seam to be found in the uniquely special and complicated relationship between female siblings. Shakespeare sometimes gave them short shrift—conniving Goneril and Reagan ganging up on their dad and baby sister and the “weird sisters” of Macbeth—which fed into a misogynistic narrative of fear which often saw all the sisters of a family fall foul of witch trials. But the bond between sisters is strange and mysterious; it is both a constant mystery and delight how someone more genetically similar to me than anyone on the planet can be so different, but she is the only person in the world who can relate to the exact specifics of my childhood and the eccentricities of our parents.Article continues after advertisement
Here are some of my favorite fictional sisters.
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