Female friendship in eighteenth-century English literature [ Feelings & Emotions ]
… where marriage can only bewilder or become a too sudden closing of the gulf society has formed between the sexes’. 5 Stuart Curran similarly contends that women’s friendships were characterized by a bond of affection and solidarity that … restricted by patriarchal expectations – even if the above mentioned women were extremely observant of gender roles and particularly careful that the public image they provided was compliant to moral standards. 8 4 . Naomi Tadmore, Family and … p. 167. 5 . Janet Todd, Women’s Friendship in Literature (New York: Columbia University Press, 1980), p. 315. 6 . Stuart Curran, ‘Dynamics of Female Friendship in the Later Eighteenth Century’, Nineteenth-Century Contexts (vol. 23, no. 2, …
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