The first academic and interdisciplinary volume exploring bluestocking portraiture, performance and patronage in eighteenth-century Britain, opening vistas for

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Bringing together top specialists in the field, this edited volume challenges the theory that the eighteenth-century British intellectual women known as the Blu

Through a fascinating narrative and 65 illustrations, including portraits, prints and caricatures, the extraordinary vigour of the bluestockings, 18th-century f

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