title: \Good education, good position, and good blood\
abstract: Creole women figures in nineteenth-century British fiction are often portrayed as threats to the stability and integrity of English domesticity in both the colony and the metropole. By virtue of the geography of their West Indian birth, these characters are closely associated with the practice of chattel slavery, and this association calls their moral integrity and domestic fitness into question. The fictional British West Indian creole woman represents, in texts written by metropolitan English 