Touch and sociability [ Communication ]
… boundaries of this more polite world, and its precise requirements of masculine conduct, were hardly set in stone. Fanny Burney records meeting a Mr. Thomas Barlow in 1775 at the home of some of her relations where her grandmother was taking … so contagious an example. I wonder so modest a man could dare to be so bold.’ 5 Mr Barlow subsequently dogged Fanny Burney’s footsteps, much to her annoyance, and it is only with difficulty that she extricated herself from his desire for … not feel similarly constrained, and whose reading of ‘appropriateness’ tended to serve their own purposes. 5 . Frances Burney, Journals and Letters, Peter Sabor and Lars E. Troide (eds) (London: Penguin books, 2001), p. 46. Burney made this …
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