The bluestockings : a history of the first women's movement

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"In Britain in the 1750s, women had no power and no rights - all money and property belonged to their fathers or husbands. A brave group risked everything to think and live as they wished, despite the sneers of contemporaries who argued that books frazzled female brains and damaged their wombs. Meet the Bluestockings: ELIZABETH MONTAGU hosted a series of glittering salons in her London drawing room, where a circle of women and men discussed theat...

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Blue Stocking Society

England Intellectual life 18th century

Great Britain Social conditions 18th century

Macaulay, Catharine, 1731-1791

Montagu, Mrs. (Elizabeth), 1718-1800

Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821

Sex role England History 18th century

Women England Social conditions 18th century

Women Great Britain History 18th century

Women Great Britain Social conditions 18th century

Women Political activity Great Britain History 18th century

Women intellectuals England History 18th century

Women political activists Great Britain

Women social reformers Great Britain

Women's rights Great Britain History 18th century

Women's rights Great Britain Societies, etc. History 18th century

Yearsley, Ann, 1753-1806

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ISBN:

9780393881387 (hardcover)
9780393881387
0393881385

Edition:

First American edition

Description:

338 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:

"First published in Great Britain by John Murray Press in 2024 as Bluestockings: the first women's movement."--Title page verso
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-328) and index

Contents:

Prologue
A woman's place
The salon
The streathamites
The milking parlour
The commune
Marriage
Motherhood
Friendship
Love
Independence
The end of the Bluestockings

Control Number:

3324891

Other Authors:

container of (work): Gibson, Susannah. Bluestockings: the first women's movement

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