Female friendship in eighteenth-century English literature [ Feelings & Emotions ]
… of friendship that seems to ignore both ‘friendship between women, and [...] friendship between a man and a woman’. 1 As opposed to men’s friendships, which in the eighteenth century centred on socialising in the public sphere, … that shaped public sphere debate’ by using her voice to evidence that exclusion, that is, ‘by writing as both a woman and a political exile’. 2 Both Manley’s Letters Written by Mrs. Manley (1696) and The New Atalantis (1709), as well … her feelings. Even Maria and Jemima’s unconventional relationship in Mary Wollstonecraft’s Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman (1798) (with the even more unconventional prospect of raising Maria’s daughter in a highly subversive all-women …
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