Female friendship in eighteenth-century English literature [ Feelings & Emotions ]
… communities ‘nudge women into development, where marriage can only bewilder or become a too sudden closing of the gulf society has formed between the sexes’. 5 Stuart Curran similarly contends that women’s friendships were characterized by … the Ladies of Llangollen, or those of Sarah Robinson Scott and Lady Barbara Montagu seem to attest to their desire for a society that would be less restricted by patriarchal expectations – even if the above mentioned women were extremely … ‘the place where the woman writer could negotiate with and between the dominant images of female identity in patriarchal society’. 16 While these relationships, Fernández-Rodríguez contends, ‘encourage intimacy and mutual sharing of a …
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