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concept-787	none	The Reconstitution of Sisterhood in Augusta Webster's "A Castaway"	2012	15	.pdf	application/pdf	6973	305	59	[CONCEPT, Vol. XXXV (2012)] The Reconstitution of Sisterhood in Augusta Webster’s “A Castaway” Grace Oh English In contrast to so many of the prostitutes that emerge in Victorian literature, Eulalie, the “fallen woman” at the center of Augusta Webster’s 1870 poem “A Castaway,” has been hailed as a woman of remarkable “self-sufficiency” (Mermin 80) who defiantly “claims her right to self- assessment and self-representation” (Brown 92). In choosing to interpret Eulalie’s devastating critique of society as a sign of her independence from it, critics have neglected to reflect substantively on aspects of the poem that suggest that Eulalie may not be so self-sufficient after all.	cache/concept-787.pdf	txt/concept-787.txt