Enemies and false friends [ Antagonism & Resistance ]
… Alexander Monro warned his daughter in 1753 that a ‘dangerous Companion’ threatened the very foundations of civil conversation. 13 His private counsel was echoed in other printed advice literature, such as that by the Scottish … to affect the contrary: This by a more proper and restrain’d Name is call’d Deceit’. 16 10 . Lawrence E. Klein, ‘Gender, Conversation and the Public Sphere in Early Eighteenth-Century England’, in Michael Worton and Judith Still (eds.), …
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