Brilliant women : 18th-century bluestockings / Elizabeth Eger and Lucy Peltz.
ISBN
9781855143890 : GBP18.99
1855143895
Dewey Classmark
704.942
Local Dewey Classmark
L 704.942 EGE
Personal Author
Eger, Elizabeth.
Publication
London : National Portrait Gallery, 2008.
Physical Description
159 p. : ill., col. ports ; 25 cm
Contents
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.
Summary of Contents
Summary: Introduces to the 'Bluestocking' salon, where like-minded men and women met from the 1750s onwards to debate contemporary ideas and promote the life of the mind. This book explores the identity of these bluestocking women and shows how they used myth and tradition to strengthen their public image.
Subject - Personal Name
More, Hannah, 1745-1833.
Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840.
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851.
Subject
Women Intellectuals Sociology 18th century.
Women Social conditions 19th century.
English literature Women authors History and criticism.
English literature History and criticism 18th century.
History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800 (ACQ) History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900 (ACV) Portraits in art (AGHF) Exhibition catalogues & specific collections (AGC). bicssc
Art and Design (ART). bicssc
Added Personal Name
Peltz, Lucy.
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