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  2. Susanna Centlivre - Wikipedia

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    However, her first published work, a series of five letters, would not appear until May 1700. These letters contain playful, witty back-and-forth banter between her and the correspondent. Although early in her career, she is complimented as woman of sense. [15] In July 1700, Abel Boyer published a second set of Centlivre's letters (among other ...

  3. Comedy of manners - Wikipedia

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    In Boston Marriage (1999), David Mamet chronicles a sexual relationship between two women, one of whom has her eye on yet another young woman (who never appears, but who is the target of a seduction scheme). Periodically, the two women make their serving woman the butt of haughty jokes, serving to point up the satire on class.

  4. Novel of manners - Wikipedia

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    The French novelist Honoré de Balzac was a founder of literary realism, of which the novel of manners is a subgenre.. To realise upward social mobility in their societies, men and women learned etiquette in order to know how to get along with the people from whom they sought favour; an example of such instructions is the book Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a ...

  5. Dispute between a man and his Ba - Wikipedia

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    The man, unconvinced, cites the evil and hardship of the world and the promises of an afterlife in accordance with ancient Egyptian religious beliefs. The text ends with the man's ba encouraging the man to continue to his religious practices in hope of an afterlife, but to continue his life and not wish for its end before its time. [5]

  6. Eternal feminine - Wikipedia

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    [84] In "Woman and the State" (1910), she writes, "The 'eternal womanly' is a far more useful thing in the state than the 'eternal manly.'" [85] In The Home: Its Work and Influence (1910), she writes with savage irony of a man with "a parasite wife" (i.e. a conventionally housebound, over-feminine one) coming home "to satisfying companionship ...

  7. Everyone on dating apps wants banter. But what does ... - AOL

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    At its most thrilling, banter mimics the buildup and climax of good sex. At its most disappointing, banter may be branded on dating app bios but never experienced on a real date.

  8. List of contemporary epistolary novels - Wikipedia

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    E-mail correspondence between a man and a woman who fall in love despite never meeting Hall, Katie and Bogen Jones The Closeness That Separates Us: 2013 E-mails A dramatic love story across conventional and country borders between Lena and Ed, almost exclusively written as an exchange of e-mails between the two protagonists. Handler, Daniel

  9. All in the Timing - Wikipedia

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    Sure Thing: A man and a woman meet for the first time in a cafe, where they have an awkward meeting continually reset each time they say the wrong thing, until, finally, they romantically connect. Words, Words, Words : Three chimpanzees, named after famous authors and expected to write Hamlet , for the most part waste time engaging in pointless ...