Touch and sociability [ Communication ]
… but Burney ’s Diary raises wider questions about who has any claim to touch or kiss her. When she first met Samuel Johnson with Burney’s father and her sister Hetty (who had met Johnson before and to whom Johnson had made a present of The Idler when she was little) ‘[…] my father introduced Hetty to him as an old …
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