Female friendship in eighteenth-century English literature [ Feelings & Emotions ]
… of Llangollen: A Study in Romantic Friendship (Ludlow: Moonrise Press, 2011). As Elizabeth Wahl observes, ‘idealized representations of female intimacy’ in the eighteenth century could be undermined by a ‘spectre of female homosexuality’, 9 … friendship feature an affectionate relationship based on equality. 9 . Elizabeth Susan Wahl, Invisible Relations: Representations of Female Intimacy in the Age of Enlightenment (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999), p.121. 10 . Lillian Faderman, Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love between Women from the Renaissance to the Present (New York: William Morrow, 1981), p.77. Female friendships as portrayed by women writers of the period thus …
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