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… ‘Frontispice of The Spectator’, The Spectator, 1763 Image R. Parr & Eliza Fowler Haywood , ‘Frontispiece to The Female Spectator’, Houghton Library, 005727193, 1746. Résumé The rise of the leisure press after 1690 caused the … new forms of sociability along gender lines. They projected an ideal of reasonable femininity which largely restricted female sociability to the domestic sphere. This model proved so hegemonic that it became difficult for later female … or The Guardian (1713), bi-weeklies like The Free-Thinker (1718-1721), or yet triweeklies like The Tatler (1709-1711) or The Lover (1714) were not only available in coffeehouses but also through private subscriptions. …
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