Enemies and false friends [ Antagonism & Resistance ]
… Image ‘The Petticoat Duellists [Two ladies duelling with pistols]’, Wellcome Collection, 568670i, 1792. Abstract Friendship held an important place in the long eighteenth … major challenges of everyday life was identifying friends from enemies. Few periodicals or treatises explicitly dealt with the subject of enmity, but it was always a central feature of the literature on friendship from this period, which … both the benefits and potential dangers of friendship throughout the long-eighteenth century, acutely aware of the ease with which an intimate relationship might tip over into an enmity. It is noteworthy that few printed periodicals or …
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