Female friendship in eighteenth-century English literature [ Feelings & Emotions ]
… generally not regarded as dangerous, either for the women involved or for the social order at large. In Surpassing the Love of Men , Lillian Faderman argues that even romantic friendships between women in the eighteenth century were rarely … intense relationship was however not limited to unmarried women: in fact, Katherine Philips’s passionate poems to her beloved lady friends Lucasia (Anne Owen), Rosania (Mary Aubrey) or Philoclea (Malet Stedman) were written during her … While Philips’s poetry seems to reveal no evidence as to the happiness of her marriage, the poems she dedicated to love in marriage generally seem to abide by an implicit hierarchical relationship between husband and wife, while her …
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