| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 256 pages) |
| Contents |
1."Small Expressions of My Passionate Love and Friendship to Thee": The Idioms and Languages of Female Alliances -- 2. Noble Presents: Gender, Gift Exchange, and the Reappropriation of Luxury -- 3. Cooperative Labor: Making Alliances through Women's Recipes and Domestic Production -- 4. Hot Spring Sociability: Women's Alliances at British Spas -- 5. Yokemates: Female Quaker Companionship in the British Atlantic World -- 6. Reconciling Friendship and Dissent: Female Alliances in the Diaries of Sarah Savage |
| Summary |
In the late 17th and early 18th centuries, cultural, economic, and political changes, as well as increased geographic mobility, placed strains upon British society. But by cultivating friendships and alliances, women worked to socially cohere Britain and its colonies. In this historical study of female friendship and alliance for the early modern period, Amanda Herbert draws on a series of interlocking microhistorical studies to demonstrate the vitality and importance of bonds formed between British women in the long 18th century |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Female friendship -- Great Britain
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Women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
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Female friendship
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Women -- Social conditions
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Great Britain
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780300199253 |
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0300199252 |
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1306370477 |
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9781306370479 |
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