Female friendship in eighteenth-century English literature [ Feelings & Emotions ]
… Wikimedia Commons, 1772. Abstract The English literature of the long eighteenth century offers abundant portraits of female friendship as a frequent form of sociability among women – sometimes sentimentalised as true spiritual companionship … among women were associated with the intimate and the private. Whether it is through the refinement of romantic odes to female friends, the controversial lives of the Ladies of Llangollen, or literary explorations of lesbian desire, …
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