Touch and sociability [ Communication ]
… more polite world, and its precise requirements of masculine conduct, were hardly set in stone. Fanny Burney records meeting a Mr. Thomas Barlow in 1775 at the home of some of her relations where her grandmother was taking tea. When she … little) ‘[…] my father introduced Hetty to him as an old acquaintance, and he cordially kissed her!’ 6 At a subsequent meeting, when Dr Johnson seemed to be ignoring her at Mrs Thrale’s – she asked him ‘why’: ‘ ‘I was not sure of you,’ …
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