Touch and sociability [ Communication ]
… boundaries of this 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 … who did not feel similarly constrained, and whose reading of ‘appropriateness’ tended to serve their own purposes. 5 . Frances Burney, Journals and Letters, Peter Sabor and Lars E. Troide (eds) (London: Penguin books, 2001), p. 46. Burney … be adhered to, they had to be led by women and by their circles, rather than by visiting males. 6 . The Early Diary of Frances Burney, 1768-1778: with a selection from her correspondence, and from the journals of her sisters Susan and …
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