Female friendship in eighteenth-century English literature [ Feelings & Emotions ]
… mandates, erotic or nurturing, as Carmen Maria Fernández-Rodríguez notices in her analysis of female friendship in Frances Burney’s novels, female relationships seem to have been ‘the place where the woman writer could negotiate with and … define and construct their identity not in relation to men, but to each other. 16 . Carmen Maria Fernández-Rodríguez, 'Frances Burney and Female Friendships: Some Notes on Cecilia (1782) and The Wanderer (1814)', Journal of English Studies …
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