Female friendship in eighteenth-century English literature [ Feelings & Emotions ]
… Eliza Haywood incorporated reflections about same-sex relationships throughout her literary production. 15 Both early novels such as Masqueraders: Or Fatal Curiosity (1724) and her last work of fiction The History of Jemmy and Jenny … as Woodward aptly contends: Samuel Richardson 's Clarissa (1747) and Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote (1752) are novels that tease representations of women's frustrated longing for one another but then silence that longing as a way of … 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 between the …
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