1st Edition

Bluestocking Feminism Writings of the Bluestocking Circle, 1738-90

2424 Pages
by Routledge

Eighteenth-century Bluestocking women were, on the whole, an upper-class and politically and socially conservative group. For this reason, their writings have been largely neglected in feminist and literary history. In recent decades, however, feminist scholarship and criticism has retrieved the Bluestocking women from their marginal position in eighteenth-century literature. This work collects... Read more
Volume 1 Elizabeth Montagu, Volume 2 Elizabeth Carter, Volume 3 Catherine Talbot & Hester Chapone, Volume 4 Anna Seward, Volume 5 Sarah Scott, Volume 6 Sarah Scott & Clark Reeve

Biography

Elizabeth Eger