The Friendships of Women. William Rounseville Alger

      INTRODUCTION

      HAVE WOMEN NO FRIENDSHIPS?

      FRIENDSHIP INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE TIES OF BLOOD

      FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN PARENTS AND CHILDREN

      FRIENDSHIPS OF MOTHERS AND SONS

      Cornelia and the Gracchi.

       Olympias and Alexander.

       Monica and Augustine.

       John Quincy Adams and His Mother.

       Goethe and his Mother.

       The Humboldts and their Mother.

       Guizot and his Mother.

      FRIENDSHIPS OF DAUGHTERS AND FATHERS

      Tullia and Cicero.

       Margaret Roper and Sir Thomas More.

       Agnes and William Wirt.

       Mary and John Evelyn.

       Theodosia and Aaron Burr.

       Maria and Richard Edgeworth.

       Madame de Staël and Necker.

       Letitia Landon and her Father.

      FRIENDSHIPS OF SISTERS AND BROTHERS

      Narcissus and his Reflection.

       Electra and Orestes.

       Antigone and Polynices.

       Diana and Apollo.

       Scholastica and Benedict.

       Cornelia and Tasso.

       Margaret and Francis.

       Mary and Sir Philip Sidney.

       Catherine and Robert Boyle.

       Caroline and William Herschel.

       Letitia and John Aikin.

       Cornelia and Goethe.

       Lena and Jacobi.

       Lucile and Chateaubriand.

       Charlotte and Schleiermacher.

       Dorothy and Wordsworth.

       Augusta and Byron.

       Mary and Charles Lamb.

       Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn.

       Whittier and his Sister.

       Eugénie and Maurice de Guérin.

      FRIENDSHIPS OF WIVES AND HUSBANDS.

      Count and Countess del Verme.

       Lady and Sir James Mackintosh.

       Aspasia and Pericles.

       Portia and Brutus.

       Arria and Pertus.

       Paulina and Seneca.

       Calpurnia and Pliny.

       Timoxena and Plutarch.

       Castara and Habington.

       Faustina and Zappi.

       Jeanne and Roland.

       Caroline and Herder.

       Lucy and John Hutchinson.

       Sarah and John Austin.

       Elizabeth and Robert Browning.

       Leopold Schefer and his Wife.

       John Stuart Mill and his Wife.

       Lady and Lord William Russell.

       Artemisia and Mausolus.

       Moomtaza and Jehan.

      PLATONIC LOVE; THE MARRIAGE OF SOULS

      Relative Prevalence of Vice in our day.

       Moral Influence of Friendships between Men and Women.

       Analysis of Platonic Love.

       Laura and Petrarch.

       Beatrice and Dante.

       Heloise and Abelard.

       Danger and Safety of Platonic Love.

       Countess Matilda and Hildebrand.

       The "Woldemar" of Jacobi.

       Influence of Chivalry in developing Friendships of Men and Women.

       Causes of Prominent Social Position of Women in France.

       Friendships in Catholic Church between Women and their Directors.

       Olympias and Chrysostom.

       Paula and Jerome.

       Clara and Francis of Assissi.

       Chantal and Francis of Sales.

       Guion and Lacombe.

       La Maisonfort and Fenelon.

       Cornuau and Bossuet.

       Theresa and John of the Cross.

       The Friendship of Vittoria Colonna and Michael Angelo.

       Mademoiselle de Scudéry and Pélisson.

       Madame de Sévigné and Corbinelli.

       Madame de la Fayette and Rochefoucauld.

       Madame du Deffand and D'Alembert.

       Mademoiselle Lespinasse and D'Alembert.

       Madame de Staël and Montmorency.

       Magdalen Herbert and Dr. Donne.

       Lady Masham and John Locke.

       Mary Unwin and Cowper.

       Mrs. Clive and Garrick.

       Hannah More and Langhorne.

       Joanna Baillie and Sir Walter Scott.

       Duchess of Devonshire and Fox.

       Duchess of Gordon and Dr. Beattie.

       Charlotte and Humboldt.

       Bettine and Goethe.

       Goethe's Treatment of Women in his Life and in his Works.

       Princess of Homburg and Marchioness di Barolo and

       Silvio Pellico.

       Isabel Fenwick and Wordsworth.

       Harriet Martineau and Channing.

       Lucy Aikin and Channing.

       Frances Power Cobbe and Theodore Parker.

       Friendships of Women and their Tutors.

       Zenobia and Longinus.

       Countess of Pembroke and Daniel.

       Princess Elizabeth and Descartes.

       Caroline of Brunswick