Touch and sociability [ Communication ]
… at risk of further and fuller violations. Practices > Communication Keywords Conduct Conventions Dance Gender Kissing Propriety Touch In The Miser Married (1813), Catherine Hutton’s heroine, Charlotte Montgomery, notes: ‘Dancing introduces … herself from his desire for a match. This exemplifies the difficulty facing a modest woman with a keen sense of the propriety of her conduct, who was potentially at risk from men who did not feel similarly constrained, and whose reading … to this behaviour. Indeed, her response suggests that any fault would be assumed to lie with her. If stricter norms of propriety were to be adhered to, they had to be led by women and by their circles, rather than by visiting males. 6 . The …
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