Bluestockings Displayed: Portraiture, Performance and Patronage, 1730-1830 by Elizabeth Eger

Bluestockings Displayed: Portraiture, Performance and Patronage, 1730-1830

Elizabeth Eger

323 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

challenging informative slow-paced
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The conversation parties of the bluestockings, held to debate contemporary ideas in eighteenth-century Britain, were vital in encouraging female artistic achievement and promoting links between learning and virtue in the public imagination, invent...

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