Solitude [ Feelings & Emotions ]
… that brought with it the benefits of mutual support and protection. The distinct word ‘lonely’ appeared in the English language only in the early seventeenth century, yet, as Diana Webb argues, it was barely distinguishable in … feeling ‘lonely’ in a sense familiar to us – as a state of being either temporarily or permanently alone – entered the English vocabulary. 4 2 . Diana Webb, Privacy and Solitude in the Middle Ages (London & New York: Continuum, 2007), p. … persisted well into the eighteenth century and are subtly conveyed in Samuel Richardson’s celebrated 1748 epistolary novel Clarissa, Or, the History of a Young Lady , which has been characterised as ‘a tragedy of solitude, inarticulacy …
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