Love stories 6 Young women 6 Social life and customs 4 Domestic fiction 3 Mate selection 3 Sisters 2 Social classes 2 Adoptees 1 Appreciation 1 Bildungsromans 1 Books and reading 1 Children of the rich 1 Country homes 1 Courtship 1 Cousins 1 Dysfunctional families 1 Epistolary fiction 1 Fathers and daughters 1 Female friendship 1 First loves 1 Gothic fiction (Literary genre) 1 Horror tales 1 Humorous stories 1 Inheritance and succession 1 Motherless families 1 Mothers and daughters 1 Psychological fiction 1 Rejection (Psychology) 1 Satire 1 Ship captains 1