Female friendship in eighteenth-century English literature [ Feelings & Emotions ]
… formed between the sexes’. 5 Stuart Curran similarly contends that women’s friendships were characterized by a bond of affection and solidarity that contributed to the nurturing of ‘women’s culture and women’s history’. 6 As Carolyn … abide by an implicit hierarchical relationship between husband and wife, while her poems on female friendship feature an affectionate relationship based on equality. 9 . Elizabeth Susan Wahl, Invisible Relations: Representations of Female … contempt. Similarly, Jane Austen also provides beautiful examples of female relationships that show genuine sisterly affection, while abundantly showing that others are informed by patriarchal standards and thus tainted by frivolity, …
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