Bluestockings : the first women's movement /
by Gibson, Susannah.
Material type:
BookPublisher: London : John Murray, 2024Description: 338 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781529369991 (hbk.) :; 1529369991 (hbk.) :.Classification number: 305.4209 GIBSubject(s): Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821 | Montagu, Mrs. Elizabeth, 1718-1800 | More, Hannah, 1745-1833 | Macaulay, Catharine, 1731-1791 | Blue Stocking Society | Women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 18th century | Women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century | Society | Society | 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799 | History | Society & culture: general | Feminism & feminist theory | Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century | Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th centurySummary: Susannah Gibson charts the struggles and immense achievements of a group of trailblazing women who risked their reputations to become public intellectuals. Burdened with ailing children and unsympathetic husbands, enduring the sneers of contemporaries who thought books frazzled women's brains and damaged their wombs, they read, wrote and published their work. Copies of Hannah More's poems were requested by King George III, Elizabeth Montagu's rebuttal to Voltaire's critique of Shakespeare thoroughly rattled the great Frenchman, and Catherine Macaulay's histories were so acclaimed in America that on her visit there she was hosted by George Washington. Earning money, fame, and with these, power, the Bluestockings laid essential foundations for future feminists to build upon. This book tells the forgotten stories of these heroines of Britain's very first women's movement.
| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book - Adult Hardback | Crosby Library | Adult Non-Fiction | 305.4209 GIB (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 003119977X |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Susannah Gibson charts the struggles and immense achievements of a group of trailblazing women who risked their reputations to become public intellectuals. Burdened with ailing children and unsympathetic husbands, enduring the sneers of contemporaries who thought books frazzled women's brains and damaged their wombs, they read, wrote and published their work. Copies of Hannah More's poems were requested by King George III, Elizabeth Montagu's rebuttal to Voltaire's critique of Shakespeare thoroughly rattled the great Frenchman, and Catherine Macaulay's histories were so acclaimed in America that on her visit there she was hosted by George Washington. Earning money, fame, and with these, power, the Bluestockings laid essential foundations for future feminists to build upon. This book tells the forgotten stories of these heroines of Britain's very first women's movement.
There are no comments on this title.