Female Heads
John Bayley, 27 October 1988
Woman to Woman: Female Friendship in Victorian Fiction
by Tess Cosslett.
Harvester, 211 pp., £29.95, July 1988,0 7108 1015 6 Show More
by Tess Cosslett.
Harvester, 211 pp., £29.95, July 1988,
Sentiment and Sociability: The Language of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century
by John Mullan.
Oxford, 261 pp., £25, June 1988,0 19 812865 7 Show More
by John Mullan.
Oxford, 261 pp., £25, June 1988,
The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney. Vol. I: 1768-1773
edited by Lars Troide.
Oxford, 353 pp., £45, June 1988,9780198125815 Show More
edited by Lars Troide.
Oxford, 353 pp., £45, June 1988,
“... to create, in however full a degree of sympathy, the feminine. These matters must be well-known to Tess Cosslett, who has written a searching study of woman-to-woman relationships in the 19th-century novel. The century saw the first attempt to explore a specifically female relationship – women, as it were, becoming fictively actual in each other’s ... ”
