| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 256 pages) |
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data file |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Female friendship -- Great Britain.
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Female friendship. |
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Great Britain. |
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Women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions.
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Women. |
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Social conditions. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Women's friendships. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Herbert, Amanda E. Female alliances. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014] 9780300177404 (DLC) 2013024192 (OCoLC)840803743 |
| ISBN |
9780300199253 (electronic book) |
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0300199252 (electronic book) |
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1306370477 (electronic book) |
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9781306370479 (electronic book) |
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9780300177404 (hardback) |
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0300177402 (hardback) |
| Standard No. |
YBP11413566 |
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