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The bluestocking circle : women, friendship, and the life of the mind in eighteenth-century England /

Traces the rise, development and decline of the Bluestocking Circle between 1740 and 1800, through a close analysis of the lives and works of the women who made up the group. Quoting widely from their letters to each other, the book provides new details of their lives and writings.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Myers, Sylvia Harcstark
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1990.
Subjects:
English literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Women and literature > England > History > 18th century.
Friendship > England > History > 18th century.
Authors, English > 18th century > Biography.
England > Intellectual life > 18th century.
Salons > England > History > 18th century.
Women > England > Intellectual life.
Women authors, English > Biography.
Écrits de femmes anglais > Histoire et critique.
Littérature anglaise > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Femmes et littérature > Angleterre > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Amitié > Angleterre > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Écrivains anglais > 18e siècle > Biographies.
Angleterre > Vie intellectuelle > 18e siècle.
Salons littéraires > Angleterre > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Femmes > Angleterre > Vie intellectuelle.
Écrivaines anglaises > Biographies.
Authors, English.
English literature.
English literature > Women authors.
Friendship.
Intellectual life.
Salons.
Women and literature.
Women authors, English.
Women > Intellectual life.
England.
1700-1799
England > Society > Role of women writers of English literature, history
Electronic books.
Biographies.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Summary:Traces the rise, development and decline of the Bluestocking Circle between 1740 and 1800, through a close analysis of the lives and works of the women who made up the group. Quoting widely from their letters to each other, the book provides new details of their lives and writings.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvi, 342 pages) : illustrations
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-333) and index.
ISBN:9780191671043
0191671045