Touch and sociability [ Communication ]
… – that accentuated 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: … endeavour to kiss her by main force and did so after some striving’ (Matthews 264 , 280, 332, 333 ). 4 . Mrs indicated a woman of marriageable age, not necessarily someone who had already been married. I read ‘kisses of Mrs Lloyd’ as … difficulty that she extricated herself from his desire for a match. This exemplifies the difficulty facing a modest woman with a keen sense of the propriety of her conduct, who was potentially at risk from men who did not feel similarly …
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