Brilliant women : 18th-century bluestockings /

Brilliant women : 18th-century bluestockings /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Eger, Elizabeth.
Corporate Author:	National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain)
Other Authors:	Peltz, Lucy.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Haven, Ct. : Yale University Press, [2008], ©2008.
Subjects:	Macaulay, Catharine, > 1731-1791. Wollstonecraft, Mary, > 1759-1797. More, Hannah, > 1745-1833. Women intellectuals > England > History > 18th century. Women > England > Social conditions > 18th century. English literature > Women authors > History and criticism. English literature > 18th century > History and criticism. England > Intellectual life > 18th century.

Table of Contents:

The bluestocking circle : friendship, patronage and learning / Elizabeth Eger
Living muses : constructing and celebrating the professional woman in literature and the arts / Lucy Peltz
'A revolution in female manners' : women, politics and reputation in the late eighteenth century / Lucy Peltz
The bluestocking legacy / Elizabeth Eger.