| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.1

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We Grew Up Together: Brothers and Sisters in Nineteenth-Century America. By Annette Atkins. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001. xx, 194 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-252-02605-5.)

Although an extensive scholarly literature has documented many aspects of American family life in the past, historians have not yet systematically examined sibling relationships. Research in women's history has revealed the importance of sisters in one another's lives, but we know very little about the nature or significance of brother-sister interactions. This volume offers an interesting and lively discussion of those issues. 1

We Grew Up Together explores sibling relationships as revealed through the correspondence of white, middle-class brothers and sisters (in one case only brothers) in ten nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century families in various regions of the United States. Annette Atkins argues that despite variations in income, family culture, style of emotional expression, frequency of contact, and amount of sibling conflict, brothers and sisters played roles of enduring significance in each others' lives as children and as adults throughout the period from 1840 to 1920. . . .

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