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

Authors

Angela Rehbein, West Liberty UniversityFollow

Author Biography

Angela Rehbein is an Assistant Professor of English at West Liberty University in West Virginia. She is co-editor of a forthcoming issue of the journal Women's Writing on "Reassessing British Women Writers of the Romantic Period" (2015). Her next project is a book-length collection of essays on "Women’s Literary Networks of the Romantic Period" for Liverpool University Press, co-edited with Andrew Winckles of Adrian College.

Abstract

Review of Amanda E. Herbert, Female Alliances: Gender, Identity, and Friendship in Early Modern Britain. New Haven: Yale UP, 2014. xi, 256 pages: illustrations; 24 cm. ISBN 978-0-300-17740-4.

Keywords

friendship, domesticity, alliance, women, gender

Recommended Citation

Rehbein, Angela (2015) "Review of Amanda E. Herbert, Female Alliances: Gender, Identity, and Friendship in Early Modern Britain," ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830: Vol.5: Iss.1, Article 5.
http://dx.doi.org/10.5038/2157-7129.5.1.4
Available at: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol5/iss1/5