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The Threat Within: Harry Potter and the Cultural Baggage of Orphan Stories

“Unlike most popular orphan characters, I wasn’t too young to remember my parents.”

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

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James and the Giant Peach

Wuthering Heights. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnJane Eyre

Redbook

Orphan Texts: Victorian Orphans, Culture and Empire,

Oliver Twist,

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her eyes are just like mine,