Female friendship in eighteenth-century English literature [ Feelings & Emotions ]
… Eliza Haywood incorporated reflections about same-sex relationships throughout her literary production. 15 Both early novels such as Masqueraders: Or Fatal Curiosity (1724) and her last work of fiction The History of Jemmy and Jenny … show the many complexities involved in female friendship, both in its positive and negative features. In the first novel, the young widow Dalinda cannot but trust her friend Philecta with the account of her affair with Dorimenus. … as Woodward aptly contends: Samuel Richardson 's Clarissa (1747) and Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote (1752) are novels that tease representations of women's frustrated longing for one another but then silence that longing as a way of …
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