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Lesley Jenike
On Shirley Jackson’s
The Haunting of Hill House
Though the Lens of Childrearing
Lesley Jenike Considers What Motherhood Can Reveal About the Self
By
Lesley Jenike
| March 5, 2026
Visions of Jane Eyre: On Mothers, Labor, and the Places Children Hide
these are my children or
this is my country
, but we’re only fooling ourselves."">Lesley Jenike: "We might say
these are my children
or
this is my country
, but we’re only fooling ourselves."
By
Lesley Jenike
| July 8, 2022
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