Female friendship in eighteenth-century English literature [ Feelings & Emotions ]
… attachments, sociable networks, and political alliances’. 4 In her foundational book Women’s Friendship in Literature , Janet Todd distinguished five types of female friendship in eighteenth-century literature: sentimental, erotic, … and women’s history’. 6 As Carolyn Woodward also observes, Sarah Scott’s Millenium Hall (1762) or Sarah Fielding and Jane Collier’s The Cry (1754) are characterised not only by fluidity of genre, but also of gender, as both narratives … the Fair Stranger and Sophia – to which she admirably reacts with compassion rather than with contempt. Similarly, Jane Austen also provides beautiful examples of female relationships that show genuine sisterly affection, while abundantly …
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