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Failed friendship and the negotiation of exclusion in eighteenth-century polite society
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Pullin, Naomi (2021) Failed friendship and the negotiation of exclusion in eighteenth-century polite society. In: Pullin, Naomi and Woods, Kathryn, (eds.) Negotiating exclusion in Early Modern England, 1550–1800. London, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780367338862
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Abstract
The discourses on politeness and friendship in the eighteenth century made clear the expectations of correct social deportment by setting down a code of conduct to which genteel women were supposed to subscribe. Yet few female relationships were able to live up to this ideal. This chapter explores the intersection of exclusion and politeness within elite women’s sociability through an instance of failed friendship involving Mary Sharpe (later Beauvoir) and her female acquaintances Mary Hamilton (later Dickenson) and Elizabeth Carter. It examines two series of letters exchanged between Sharpe and Hamilton, and Carter and Hamilton, over an eleven-year period between March 1779 and January 1790. This unusual set of correspondence documents the breakdown of this connection and the exclusion and ostracism that resulted. This case study thus enables an exploration of the limits of what could be considered acceptable within the context of female friendship and sociability and shows that politeness was as much a force of division as it was for social unity.
Item Type: | Book Item | ||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BJ Ethics H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Marginality, Social -- England -- History, Social status -- England -- History, Social role -- England -- History, England -- Social conditions, Friendship, Etiquette, Courtesy, Politeness (Linguistics) | ||||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||
Place of Publication: | London, UK | ||||||
ISBN: | 9780367338862 | ||||||
Book Title: | Negotiating exclusion in Early Modern England, 1550–1800 | ||||||
Editor: | Pullin, Naomi and Woods, Kathryn | ||||||
Official Date: | 9 March 2021 | ||||||
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Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Negotiating exclusion in Early Modern England, 1550–1800 on 9 March 2021, available online: https://www.routledge.com/Negotiating-Exclusion-in-Early-Modern-England-15501800/Pullin-Woods/p/book/9780367338862 | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 9 June 2021 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 9 September 2022 | ||||||
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