Glenda Hudson is co-author of "A Contemporary Guide to Literary Terms". Her articles and reviews of 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-century fiction have appeared in "Jane Austen and Discourses of Feminism", "Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Persuasions, Remate de Males", and "Studies in the Novel".

Examines Austen's presentation of sibling love and rivalry in the context of the social and historical changes in the late 18th and early 19th centuries and analyses the incest motif in numerous works of the period, arguing that the handling of incestuous themes represents a stage in the development of the novel. Originally published in 1992.