{"id":547,"date":"2012-08-15T06:47:01","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T14:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevecampion.com\/MostlyNF\/?p=547"},"modified":"2012-08-23T16:12:16","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T23:12:16","slug":"the-novelists-title-writers-daughter-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stevecampion.com\/MostlyNF\/?p=547","title":{"rendered":"The Novelist’s Title Writer’s Daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Daughters are popular right now. Novelists are smitten by them. I first took notice of the trend when Amy Tan published The Bonesetter’s Daughter<\/em> a few years ago. It was a year after the non-fiction world was introduced to Galileo’s Daughter<\/em> by Dava Sobel. I was briefly side-tracked by The Time-Traveller’s Wife<\/em> (Audrey Niffennegger) and an old copy of The Beekeeper’s Apprentice<\/em> (Laurie King), but the steady release of books about one person or another’s daughter continued unabated.<\/p>\n

Consider this progression: The Traitor’s Daughter<\/em> leads to The Hangman’s Daughter, <\/em>The Bonesetter’s Daughter, <\/em>The Mortician’s Daughter<\/em>, The Gravedigger’s Daughter<\/em>, and finally The Grave Robber’s Daughter<\/em>. There are daughters of presidents and preachers, heroes and inmates, samurais and martian generals, hummingbirds and centaurs. I even encountered The Gerbil Farmer’s Daughter<\/em>! I don’t know why this female offspring phenomenon has taken root, but The Bookseller’s Daughter<\/em> is surely grateful.<\/p>\n

Do you think I’m imagining it? I ran a search of my local library’s catalog and turned up these books published in the last ten years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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  • The Abortionist’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • The Admiral’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • Agamemnon’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • The Alchemist’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • Belshazzar’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • The Bishop’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • The Bonesetter’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • The Bookseller’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • The Bootlegger’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • The Butterfly’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • Califia’s Daughters<\/em><\/li>\n
  • Calligrapher’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • Castro’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • The Centaur’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • Cleopatra’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • The Colonel’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • Colter’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • The Communist’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • The Con Man’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • The Concubine’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • The Courtesan’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • Crusoe’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • Dagmar’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • Dan Barry’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • Dante’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • Death’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • Deception’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • The Demon Trapper’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • The Doctor’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • Dracula’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • The Dragon Lord’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • The Dreamthief’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • Elminster’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • His Enemy’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • The Executioner’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • The Farmer’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • The Fat Man’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • The Firework-maker’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • The Fortune Teller’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • Fortune’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • Frightful’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • The Frontiersman’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • General Winston’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • The Glass Maker’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • The Gold Miner’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • The Goldsmith’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • The Grave Robber’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • The Gravedigger’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • Hades Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • The Hangman’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • Hanna’s Daughters<\/em><\/li>\n
  • The Headhunter’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • The Heretic’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • The Hero’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • The Horsemaster’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • The Hummingbird’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • I Am Rembrandt’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • An Inmate’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • Isabel’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • Killing Neptune’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • The Kingmaker’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • The King’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • Kubiak’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • Lady Macbeth’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • The Landlord’s Black-Eyed Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • The Legate’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • The Light-Bearer’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • The Lightkeeper’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • The Lion’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • The Lord Protector’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n
  • Madame Bovary’s Daughter<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n
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