Solitude [ Feelings & Emotions ]
… thou Converse not with thine Enemy ’. 7 7 . N. H., The Ladies Dictionary; Being a General Entertainment for the Fair-Sex (London, 1694), p. 73. The dangers of solitude persisted well into the eighteenth century and are subtly conveyed in … of virtues achieved in solitude were believed to be uncommon among women. Regarded as the naturally more sociable sex and unsuited to lengthy periods of time alone, very few printed and didactic texts explored the possibility that …
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