The bluestockings : a history of the first women's movement / Susannah Gibson.

Title:

ISBN:

9780393881387

Personal Author:

Gibson, Susannah

Edition:

First American edition.

Publication Information:

New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, 2024.

Physical Description:

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

Summary:

This illuminating group portrait delves into the lives of a circle of 18th-century women called the Bluestockings, who came together in glittering salons to discuss and debate as intellectual equals with men, fighting for women to be educated and have a public role in society.

Geographic Term:

England -- Intellectual life -- 18th century

Subject Term:

Sex role--England -- History 18th century

Women intellectuals--England -- History 18th century

Women--England -- Social conditions 18th century

Feminists--England -- Biography

Genre:

Biographies

OCLC Number:

on1445897765

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