Female friendship in eighteenth-century English literature [ Feelings & Emotions ]
… Mary Linley', 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 … friends, the controversial lives of the Ladies of Llangollen, or literary explorations of lesbian desire, fictional portraits of female friendship in the long eighteenth century seem to have provided women with the intellectual stimulus, … Keywords Conflict Friendship Gender Sex Women 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 …
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