Female friendship in eighteenth-century English literature [ Feelings & Emotions ]
… for a progressively more rigid separation of gender roles (and apt spaces for such roles), Todd argues that female communities ‘nudge women into development, where marriage can only bewilder or become a too sudden closing of the gulf … as both narratives challenge hetero-patriarchal conventions and explore female subjectivity by imagining women-centred communities. 7 Indeed, the life choices of Sarah Ponsonby and Lady Elizabeth Butler, the Ladies of Llangollen, or those … a listening ear to their discontents. However, as Catherine Ingrassia contends, the dominant philosophy behind female communities often tended to perpetuate ‘the shared reinforcement of behavioural norms’ 11 and observance of patriarchal …
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