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Author:

Eger, Elizabeth.

Title:

Brilliant women : 18th-century bluestockings / Elizabeth Eger and Lucy Peltz.

Publisher:

Yale University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

159 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 25 cm.

Subject:

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--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
England--Intellectual life--18th century.

Other Authors:

National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain)
Peltz, Lucy.

Notes:

Published to accompany the exhibition held at the National Portrait Gallery, London, from 13 March to 15 June 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 152-154) and index.

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.

ISBN:

0300141033
9780300141030

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)