Touch and sociability [ Communication ]
… to other forms of contact and relations, which clearly did exist but were much less subject to commentary in the novels, letters and diaries of the day. And my aim is to help us grasp some of the complexities that lie behind Catherine … constrained, and whose reading of ‘appropriateness’ tended to serve their own purposes. 5 . Frances Burney, Journals and Letters, Peter Sabor and Lars E. Troide (eds) (London: Penguin books, 2001), p. 46. Burney made this clear in her first … she would be comfortable, and alienated from her father by his ’vulgarity.’ 13 11 . A point made by Mary Robinson in A Letter to the Women of England (London, 1799), p. 5: ‘If a man receive an insult, he is justified in seeking retribution. …
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