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 … England’, Historical Journal (59 (1) March 2016), p. 71-97. Moreover, neither women’s diaries nor their letters were wholly candid about such matters. Revealing oneself and one’s humiliations in letters might risk further …
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