Female friendship in eighteenth-century English literature [ Feelings & Emotions ]
… female friendships were critical or supportive of social mandates, erotic or nurturing, as Carmen Maria Fernández-Rodríguez notices in her analysis of female friendship in Frances Burney’s novels, female relationships seem to have been ‘the place where the woman writer could negotiate with and between the dominant images of female identity in patriarchal society’. 16 While these relationships, Fernández-Rodríguez contends, ‘encourage intimacy and mutual sharing of a domestic environment, they also express women’s intense …
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