Female friendship in eighteenth-century English literature [ Feelings & Emotions ]
… as a devious façade for unnatural sexual desire. As opposed to men’s friendships, which centred on socialising in the public sphere, forms of attachment among women were associated with the intimate and the private. Whether it is through … a man and a woman’. 1 As opposed to men’s friendships, which in the eighteenth century centred on socialising in the public sphere, forms of attachment among women were increasingly associated with the intimate and the private. In her … capacity as editor of the Examiner , Delarivier Manley was nevertheless denied access to most of the spaces in the male public sphere. However, as Rachel Carnell contends, she effectively managed to ‘challenge the confines of the male …
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