Female Alliances: Gender, Identity, and Friendship in Early Modern Britain
Amanda E. Herbert
Abstract
In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth 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. Presenting an historical study of female friendship and alliance for the early modern period, this book draws on a series of interlocking microhistorical studies to demonstrate the vitality and importance of bonds formed between British women in the long eighteenth century. It shows that while these alliances were ce ... More
Keywords: British society, alliances, women, colonies, female friendship, eighteenth century, bonds, British Atlantic world
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2014 | Print ISBN-13: 9780300177404 |
| Published to Yale Scholarship Online: May 2014 | DOI:10.12987/yale/9780300177404.001.0001 |
