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Aunts
Episode 5 of 5
Where have all the aunts gone? asks Rachel Cooke in her fifth essay about The Odd Woman. She remembers her own maiden aunts, Hilda and Vera and the many aunts that populate literature - from Betsey Trotwood in David Copperfield to Aunt Spiker and Aunt Sponge in James and the Giant Peach.
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