Touch and sociability [ Communication ]
… of contact and relations, which clearly did exist but were much less subject to commentary in the novels, letters and diaries of the day. And my aim is to help us grasp some of the complexities that lie behind Catherine Hutton’s evocative … her fortitude, or important the preservation of her character, she would be deemed a murderess.’ 12 . See The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister, Helena Whitbread (ed.) (London: Virago, 2010) 13 . For some of the complexities of women’s … honour in eighteenth-century England’, Historical Journal (59 (1) March 2016), p. 71-97. Moreover, neither women’s diaries nor their letters were wholly candid about such matters. Revealing oneself and one’s humiliations in letters …
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