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Female friendship in eighteenth-century English literature [ Feelings and Emotions ]

… missing in their relationships with men. Concepts > Feelings and Emotions Keywords Women Friendship English literature Gender roles The English literature of the long eighteenth century offers abundant portraits of female friendship as a frequent … such image ‘two and a half centuries later, has not fully been shaken’. 3 . Rachel Carnell, 'It's Not Easy Being Green: Gender and Friendship in Eliza Haywood's Political Periodicals', English Faculty Publications (vol. 24, 1999) …

Solitude [ Feelings and Emotions ]

… of one another. Concepts > Feelings and Emotions Keywords loneliness Religion Social relations Conversation Gender roles Politeness melancholy privacy In 1711 Joseph Addison spoke of his vision for his new periodical, The Spectator . In … thy Closet’: Women, Closet Culture, and the Eighteenth-Century English Novel’, in John Styles and Amanda Vickery (eds.), Gender, Taste and Material Culture in Britain and North America, 1700‒1830 (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, …

Touch and sociability [ Communication ]

… and were seen by women as putting them at risk of further and fuller violations. Practices > Communication Keywords Gender body sensuality touch kissing signaling In The Miser Married (1813), Catherine Hutton’s heroine, Charlotte … and variations, simultaneously masking and refining issues of attraction and desire.  My discussion focuses on binary gendered relations as a wide normative standard – without prejudice to other forms of contact and relations, which … Scottish Enlightenment, such as John Millar and Henry Home, Lord Kames, recognized that as society grew more complex the roles of women changed, leading to them being appraised in different, less physical, terms, and as they became educated, …

Debating societies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]

… Record Society 30 (London: London Record Society, 1994). 8 . Mary Thale, ‘Women in London Debating Societies in 1780’, Gender & History 7, no. 1 (1 April 1995), p. 5–24 (https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0424.1995.tb00011.x). 9 . Debate on 27 … were tempered by conservative opinions on other fields (against welfare to the undeserving poor; for traditional gender roles).   Social composition and the issue of respectability The sixpence entry fee made debating societies …

Masquerades in London [ Dance, Music & Songs / Social interaction ]

… and disguises they wore, and which lifted social and cultural restrictions they were subject to. At the same time, the roles they typically chose as substitutes for their suspended selves were selected from a range of stock masks and … posed to female participants (Castle, 96), it could also be seen as a potential utopia of female sovereignty, which 'engendered an ‘Amazonian race'', a society of 'women unmarked by patriarchy' (Castle, 255) . 6 . Ronald L. Grimes, … https://www.digitens.org/en/notices/masquerades-london.html Further Reading Craft-Fairchild, Catherine, Masquerade and Gender: Disguise and Female Identity in Eighteenth-Century Fictions by Women (University Park: The Pennsylvania State …