Female Alliances Gender, Identity, and Friendship in Early Modern Britain Amanda E. Herbert

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Format:: Hardback
Publication date:: 21 Jan 2014
ISBN:: 9780300177404
Imprint:: Yale University Press
Dimensions:: 272 pages: 235 x 156 x 21mm
Illustrations:: 27 b-w illus.

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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.

Amanda Herbert is assistant professor of history at Christopher Newport University. She lives in Williamsburg, VA.

‘…carefully constructed and warm-hearted studies.’—Kate Chisholm, Times Literary Supplement.