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Author Eger, Elizabeth.

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

Publication Info. New Haven, Ct. : Yale University Press, [2008]
©2008

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  305.40942 E29B    Check Shelf
Description 159 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Note Published to accompany the exhibition held at the National Portrait Gallery, London, from 13 March to 15 June 2008.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.
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 -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
England -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
Added Author Peltz, Lucy.
National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain)
ISBN 9780300141030
0300141033
9781855143890 hardback
1855143895 hardback
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