The Bluestocking Circle

Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England

Inbunden, Engelska, 1990

Av Sylvia Harcstark Myers, Hayward) Myers, Sylvia Harcstark (late Lecturer in English, late Lecturer in English, California State University

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In 1734 Swift wrote to Mary Granville: `A pernicious error prevails ... that it is the duty of your sex to be fools'. As Mrs Delaney she was to become one of a group of intelligent women who actively denied such a duty, and whose literary receptions drew in many of the finest minds of the day. 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 Drawing substantially on previously unpublished information and quoting widely from the group's letters to each other, Professor Myers supplies much fresh and important detail on the relationships, social lives, and writings of the Circle. The Bluestocking Circle examines a field rich in historical and literary interest, and significantly deepens our knowledge of eighteenth-century women writers.

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Utgivningsdatum1990-08-30
Mått142 x 227 x 26 mm
Vikt570 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor360
FörlagClarendon Press
ISBN9780198117674

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List of illustrations; Prologue; I: The first Bluestockings: mentors, families, and friends (1740-1758): Introduction; The importance of Bulstrode; Elizabeth Carter's London career; Chosen friends: Jemima Campbell, later Marchioness Grey, Catherine Talbot, Elizabeth Carter, and Hester Mulso; II: The first Bluestockings: choices and changing views: Introduction; Marriage and the Bluestockings; 'Feminist consciousness' and the Bluestockings; III: The first Bluestockings as women writers (1758-1775): Introduction; Elizabeth Carter: Essayist, translator, poet; Elizabeth Montagu: the making of a female critic; 'A buried talent': the writings of Catherine Talbot; Life after fifteen: Hester Mulso Chapone on the education of women; IV: Bluestocking Fame (1775-1800): Introduction; The observed and their observers; Bluestockings in print and on canvas; Epilogue; Notes to the text; Bibliography; Index