Female friendship in eighteenth-century English literature [ Feelings & Emotions ]
… seduction’ (222). Such an intense relationship was however not limited to unmarried women: in fact, Katherine Philips’s passionate poems to her beloved lady friends Lucasia (Anne Owen), Rosania (Mary Aubrey) or Philoclea (Malet Stedman) were … of wayward female behaviour – those of Mrs M., the Fair Stranger and Sophia – to which she admirably reacts with compassion rather than with contempt. Similarly, Jane Austen also provides beautiful examples of female relationships that … Ros, Seductive Forms : Women's Amatory Fiction from 1684 - 1740 (London: Clarendon Press, 1992) Donoghue, Emma, Passions between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-180 1 (London: Macmillan, 2014) Faderman, Lillian, Surpassing the …
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