Female friendship in eighteenth-century English literature [ Feelings & Emotions ]
… Carnell contends, she effectively managed to ‘challenge the confines of the male friendship that shaped public sphere debate’ by using her voice to evidence that exclusion, that is, ‘by writing as both a woman and a political exile’. 2 … which female authors experienced their exclusion as women in a world dominated by the exclusively male spaces of public debate. As Carnell observes, ‘we also must appreciate her [Haywood’s] challenge to the foundations of a political public …
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