Female friendship in eighteenth-century English literature [ Feelings & Emotions ]
… of affection and solidarity that contributed to the nurturing of ‘women’s culture and women’s history’. 6 As Carolyn Woodward also observes, Sarah Scott’s Millenium Hall (1762) or Sarah Fielding and Jane Collier’s The Cry (1754) are … the Later Eighteenth Century’, Nineteenth-Century Contexts (vol. 23, no. 2, 2001, pp. 221–239), p. 233. 7 . Carolyn Woodward, ‘’My Heart so Wrapt’: Lesbian Disruptions in Eighteenth-Century British Fiction’, Signs (vol. 18, no.4 - Theorizing … young women, Curran similarly observes that a strong commitment to a female friend was considered ‘a safe surrogate to ward off the dangers of male seduction’ (222). Such an intense relationship was however not limited to unmarried women: …
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