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… Periodicals Politics Women Gendered sociability in the English periodical essay While seventeenth-century English newspapers and the political press were largely associated with male coffeehouse sociability – customers could read the … readers by enlightening them on how to achieve polite, domestic sociability, and by offering them, a semi-private safe space where to socialise through epistolarity and where to find moral guidance. The construction of sociability in and by … authority by heading their magazines with a female persona, one essential precondition was to construct their journal as spaces promoting and defending private respectable female sociability. 15 . The first one was written by a persona named …
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