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Fiona Peters, Ruth Rendell and Barbara Vine – Family Matters, Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 11, Issue 1, 1 March 2017, Pages 31–47, https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpw029
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This article traces themes and preoccupations that work across Ruth Rendell’s work, writing both as Rendell and also as Barbara Vine. It investigates the ways in which the use of a pseudonym allows her to delve deeper into areas that she also explores as Rendell – the dysfunctional family and heredity, both in relation to physical disease and the fruitless search for origins, the latter discussed by her through the lens of Freudian psychoanalysis.
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