The Friendships of Women by William Rounseville Alger is about the people that women rely on for social and emotional support, from their parents to their siblings to their husbands. Contents: " 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."