ABSTRACT Victorian notions of the passionless female allowed for a wide latitude of socially acceptable relationships between girls in the nineteenth century that included crushes, romantic friendships, and, for women,…
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Intense and passionate friendships among women in the 19th century were considered normal and healthy. This was, of course, before the spectre of homosexuality ruined everything.
This 1898 article is meant to make smashing sound unattractive.