TY  - BOOK
AU  - Herbert,Amanda E.
TI  - Female alliances: gender, identity, and friendship in early modern Britain 
SN  - 978-0-300-17740-4
U1  - 302.340820941 23E
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New Haven, London
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain
KW  - HISTORY / Social History
KW  - HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century
KW  - Female friendship / Great Britain
KW  - Women / Great Britain / Social conditions
N1  - Notes bibliogr
N2  - "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. In the first book-length 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 eighteenth century. She shows that while these alliances were central to women's lives, they were also instrumental in building the British Atlantic world"--
ER  -