The Bluestocking Circle

Author : Sylvia Harcstark Myers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015018909229

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The Bluestocking Circle by Sylvia Harcstark Myers Pdf

This book traces the rise, development, and decline of the Bluestocking circle between 1740 and 1800, through a close analysis of the lives and works of the women who made up the group. Drawing on previously unpublished material, Myers offers new and important details on the relationships, social lives, and writings of the Circle. Significantly adding to the knowledge of eighteenth-century women writers, Myers addresses the controversy surrounding the nature of the women's relationships within the group and argues that the Circle was not comprised of latent lesbians, but rather of a group of friends, men as well as women, who were involved intellectually rather than romantically.

Author : Elizabeth Eger,Lucy Peltz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : England
ISBN : UOM:39076002768187

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Brilliant Women by Elizabeth Eger,Lucy Peltz Pdf

Through a fascinating narrative and 65 illustrations, including portraits, prints and caricatures, the extraordinary vigour of the bluestockings, 18th-century foremother to feminism, is rediscovered. In addition, inspirational women in the public eye today contribute their thoughts on the legacy of the bluestockings.

Author : Elizabeth Eger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521768801

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Bluestockings Displayed by Elizabeth Eger Pdf

The first academic and interdisciplinary volume exploring bluestocking portraiture, performance and patronage in eighteenth-century Britain, opening vistas for future scholarship.

Author : Gary Kelly,Professor of English Gary Kelly,Elizabeth Eger,Judith Hawley,Jennifer Kelly,Rhoda Zuk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1999-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138750506

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Bluestocking Feminism, Volume 1 by Gary Kelly,Professor of English Gary Kelly,Elizabeth Eger,Judith Hawley,Jennifer Kelly,Rhoda Zuk Pdf

Feminist scholarship and criticism has retrieved the Bluestocking women from their marginal position in 18th-century literature. This work collects the principal writings of these women, together with a selection of their letters. Each volume is annotated and all texts are edited and reset.

Author : Jane Robinson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141961095

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Bluestockings by Jane Robinson Pdf

The incredible story of the fight for female education in Britain In 1869, when five women enrolled at university for the first time in British history, the average female brain was thought to be 150 grams lighter than a man's. When the Cambridge Senate held a vote on whether women students should be allowed official membership of the university, there was a full-scale riot. Despite the prejudice and the terrible sacrifices they faced, women from all backgrounds persevered and paved the way for the generations who have followed them since. Bluestockings tells an inspiring story - of defiance and determination, of colourful eccentricity and at times heartbreaking loneliness, as well as of passionate friendships, midnight cocoa-parties and glorious self-discovery. 'Social history of the best kind' Sunday Times 'Modern girls need reminding of the long battle, and Jane Robinson's fine book does just that, charting the lives and struggles of campaigners' Mail on Sunday

Author : Nicole Pohl,Betty A. Schellenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-13
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : 0873282124

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Reconsidering the Bluestockings by Nicole Pohl,Betty A. Schellenberg Pdf

From reviews of the original edition: "By packaging several perspectives together, "Reconsidering the Bluestockings" creates a more thorough context for future scholarship. The book is, in short, the most valuable kind of scholarship: it provokes questions rather than answers them."--"New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century"

Author : Rebecca Ann Bach,Gwynne Kennedy
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781575911366

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Feminisms and Early Modern Texts by Rebecca Ann Bach,Gwynne Kennedy Pdf

Author : Barbara Eaton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Women social reformers
ISBN : 1903427703

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Yes Papa! by Barbara Eaton Pdf

Barbara Eaton's delightful biography has restored Chapone to her rightful place... a vivid portrait of Chapone as both 'spitfire' and dutiful daughter, earnest moralist and irreverent satirist. Hester Chapone, an early bluestocking, was born in 1727. When tragedy hit her marriage she was left in debt and turned to writing for money. In 1773 Letters on the Improvement of the Mind was published and became a bestseller until well into the 19th Century. Highly influential in the education of girls it was mentioned by Sheridan in The Rivals, Thackeray in Vanity Fair, and by Jane Austen as Edmund's model for Fanny's education in Mansfield Park.

Author : Janet Doubler Ward,JoAnna Stephens Mink
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 087972644X

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Communication and Women's Friendships by Janet Doubler Ward,JoAnna Stephens Mink Pdf

Eleven contributed essays discuss a variety of literary texts against a background of the historical and cultural aspects of women's friendships. The listings of works cited and primary works discussed do not adequately substitute for an index. Paper edition (unseen), $15.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Jane A. Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12
Category : Economics
ISBN : 0942617657

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A Bluestocking Guide by Jane A. Williams Pdf

"A Bluestocking Guide: Economics" is a multi-age level book designed to reinforce and enhance a student's understanding of the subject matter presented in the primer "Whatever Happened to Penny Candy?" an Uncle Eric book by Richard J. Maybury.

Author : Fanny Burney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1782
Category : England
ISBN : OXFORD:400445737

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Cecilia, Or, Memoirs of an Heiress by Fanny Burney Pdf

Author : Brenda Knight
Publisher : Conari Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006-02-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1573242713

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Wild Women and Books by Brenda Knight Pdf

A tribute to women who are passionate about books celebrates the librarians, editors, writers, bibliophiles, and book club devotees who have dedicated themselves to the written word.

Author : Elizabeth Thornton
Publisher : Diversion Books
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781626815605

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Bluestocking Bride by Elizabeth Thornton Pdf

A study in seduction proves irresistible in this charming Regency romance from the USA Today–bestselling author of the Devereux Trilogy. Educated and brilliant, classics scholar Catherine Hartland has yet to meet a man who takes her intellect seriously or views the fairer sex as anything but mere playthings. Certainly the Marquis of Rutherston is no exception. But, as much as her head demands she ignore his bold, sensual gaze, his beautifully sculpted features, and his clear intent to kiss her senseless, have her heart dictating otherwise. Cynical and weary of matchmaking games, the Marquis is stunned by his own reaction to a woman so different from the docile, biddable beauties he much prefers. Catherine might be the only woman in London immune to his considerable charms, but that immunity convinces him she is the only woman he has to have. And as passion makes Catherine a prisoner of her own desires, she knows the time has come to teach this arrogant gentleman a lesson in the true meaning of love. “I consider Elizabeth Thornton a major find.” —Mary Balogh, New York Times–bestselling author of the Westcott Novels “A major, major talent, Ms. Thornton takes her rightful place as a genre superstar.” —RT Book Reviews

Author : Andrew O. Winckles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781789620184

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Eighteenth-Century Women's Writing and the Methodist Media Revolution by Andrew O. Winckles Pdf

Eighteenth-Century Women's Writing and the Methodist Media Revolution argues that Methodism in the eighteenth century was a media event that uniquely combined and utilized different types of media to reach a vast and diverse audience. Specifically, it traces particular cases of how evangelical and Methodist discourse practices interacted with major cultural and literary events during the long eighteenth century, from the rise of the novel through the Revolution controversy of the 1790s to the shifting ground for women writers leading up to the Reform era in the 1830s. The book maps the religious discourse patterns of Methodism onto works by authors like Samuel Richardson, Mary Wollstonecraft, Hannah More, Elizabeth Hamilton, Mary Tighe, and Felicia Hemans. This provides not only a better sense of the religious nuances of these authors' better-known works, but also a fuller consideration of the wide variety of genres in which women were writing during the period, many of which continue to be read as 'non-literary'. The scope of the book leads the reader from the establishment of evangelical forms of discourse in the 1730s to the natural ends of these discourse structures during the era of reform, all the while pointing to ways in which women - Methodist and otherwise - modified these discourse patterns as acts of resistance or subversion.

Author : Nataliia Voloshkova
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1108720722

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Bluestockings and Travel Accounts by Nataliia Voloshkova Pdf

This Element proposes to relate the eighteenth-century world of travel and travel writing with the bluestocking salon. It locates eminent British travellers and explorers in the female-presided intellectual space and examines their multifaceted interaction with the bluestockings between 1760 and 1799. The study shows how the bluestockings acquired knowledge of the world through reading, discussing, writing and collecting travel accounts. It explores the 'social life' of manuscript and printed travel texts in the circle, their popularity and impact on the bluestockings. This Element builds upon the body of evidence provided by their published and unpublished diaries, correspondence and private library catalogues.