Touch and sociability [ Communication ]
… its significance against a background of wider restrictive conventions 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, … soft sayings’ from which he could get nothing – he recorded: ‘she seemed perfectly tired on any discourse and said so herself. I left her at past 4 and found an opportunity of kissing her’ (Matthews 250-251) . Three weeks later, he … 1939), p. 131, see also p. 126 and 163. In Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer (1773), Mr. Marlow believes himself to be in an inn and imagines Kate Hardcastle to be a barmaid. Shy with women of his own class, he treats women from …
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