But we have no modern theorist of love and friendship” (Friends and Lovers, p. 12). While Tadmor, as noted, cites a number of studies in which friendship is discussed, none is a study of friendship. Her book, of course, begins to redress this gap. 22. Stone, Family, Sex, and Marriage, p. 328. 23. Alan Macfarlane, Marriage and Love in England: Modes of Reproduction, 13001840 (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986), pp. 154159. Many of Macfarlane’s sources express this ideal in the language of friendship, as do many of Stone’s. 24. Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women (New York: Norton, 1988), pp. 30ff. 25. Stone, Family, Sex, and Marriage, p. 328. 26. Lillian Faderman, Surpassing the Love of Men (New York: Morrow, 1981), p. 91. 27. Stone, Family, Sex, and Marriage, p. 329. Macfarlane, for once, concurs, noting that “[e]ven the French, within the European marriage pattern, found the system odd” and citing to this effect not only the same passage from the Duc de La Rochefoucauld but also ones from Taine and Cobbett (Marriage and Love in England, p.
