Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments vi
3. Contents vii
4. Prologue: Darwin’s Marriage 1
5. Introduction 5
6. PART I. A question of incest
7. 1. The Romance of Incest and the Love of Cousins 31
8. 2. The Law of Incest 52
9. 3. The Science of Incest and Heredity 83
10. PART II. Family concerns
11. 4. The Family Business 107
12. 5. Wilberforce and the Clapham Sect 135
13. 6. Difficulties with Siblings 159
14. PART III. The intellectuals
15. 7. The Bourgeois Intellectuals 181
16. 8. The Bloomsbury Version 199
17. Coda: The End of the Line 243
18. Notes 257
19. Index 288