Touch and sociability [ Communication ]
… concerning when an eligible woman might trust herself in a man’s hands? 1 . Catherine Hutton, The Miser Married, a Novel in Three Volumes (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1813), vol. II, p. 170. The literature on British … to other forms of contact and relations, which clearly did exist but were much less subject to commentary in the novels, letters and diaries of the day. And my aim is to help us grasp some of the complexities that lie behind … Letters, Peter Sabor and Lars E. Troide (eds) (London: Penguin books, 2001), p. 46. Burney made this clear in her first novel Evelina (1778) – perhaps especially in vol. 1, when our heroine is thrown into London society, ill-prepared by her …
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