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None of Margaret Drabble's novels is as explicit in showing the author’s "fascination" with matricidal rage against one 's mother as her Jerusalem the Golden (1967) in which she gets involved in what Adrienne Rich calls "matrophobia," the fear of one's mother, or of becoming one's mother. Conspicuous is the affinity between the novel's protagonist and the author who nurses a grudge against a mother who made her circuit judge husband's life gruesome beyond limits and probably precipitated his death. This paper contends that Clara Maugham's, the novel's protagonist's, “matrophobia" or matricidal rage verges on the extravagant and offends because it implausibly imitates life and violates readerly expectations about fiction.
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