Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-230) and index.
Contents:
A copernican shift; or, remapping the Bluestocking heavens / Deborah and Steven Heller -- Bluestockings and the cultures of natural history / Beth Fowkes Tobin -- Cosmopolitan Bluestockings / Nicole Pohl -- The Sappho of Gloucestershire: Sarah Chapone and Christian feminism / Clarissa Campbell Orr -- John Burrows, Bluestocking Boswell / William McCarthy -- "Thrale's entire": Hester Lynch Thrale and the Anchor Brewery / Michael J. Franklin -- Hester Thrale Piozzi, the Bas Bleu, and the theatre / Felicity A. Nussbaum -- Sisters across the centuries: Hannah More and Grace Irwin / Patricia Demers -- Bluestocking work: learning, literature, and lore in the onset of modernity / Gary Kelly.
Series:
British literature in context in the long eighteenth century
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