List of illustrations; Prologue; I: The first Bluestockings:
mentors, families, and friends (1740-1758): Introduction; The
importance of Bulstrode; Elizabeth Carter's London career; Chosen
friends: Jemima Campbell, later Marchioness Grey, Catherine Talbot,
Elizabeth Carter, and Hester Mulso; II: The first Bluestockings:
choices and changing views: Introduction; Marriage and the
Bluestockings; 'Feminist consciousness' and the Bluestockings; III:
The first
Bluestockings as women writers (1758-1775): Introduction; Elizabeth
Carter: Essayist, translator, poet; Elizabeth Montagu: the making
of a female critic; 'A buried talent': the writings of Catherine
Talbot;
Life after fifteen: Hester Mulso Chapone on the education of women;
IV: Bluestocking Fame (1775-1800): Introduction; The observed and
their observers; Bluestockings in print and on canvas; Epilogue;
Notes to the text; Bibliography; Index
Died 1988.
`Sylvia Myers has left us with a tightly packed and stimulating
account of an important chapter in the history of female
achievement and female solidarity.'
Christine Salmon, Notes and Queries.
`excellent study of the eighteenth-century Blue Stockings ... This
is an immensely enjoyable book which weighs into sexual politics
and comes out preferring the naughty to the nice.'
Janet Barron, Literary Review
`Sylvia Myers has left us with a tightly packed and stimulating
account of an important chapter in the history of female
achievement and female solidarity'.
Christine Salmon, Notes and Queries, Dec 1991.
'solidly based on factual research, much of it contained in
hitherto unpublished manuscripts ... This book is an invaluable
corrective to the extremism of Armstrong and Spacks, whose picture
of the relations between the sexes is seen by comparison to be
artificially polarised.'
English Studies, Volume 72, Number 6, December 1991
'It is a pleasure to see the growing concern for biography
evidenced in Sylvia Myers's The Bluestocking Circle, ... It is time
for scholarship to regain its balance, after having tilted so
strongly in the direction of theory for many years. Such balance is
particularly important in the study of women writers ... a
significant contribution to the study of eighteenth-century women
of letters.'
Ann Messenger, Simon Fraser University, Journal of English and
Germanic Philology, Volume 91, No. 1, January 1992
`... Myers' book is an excellent resource for scholars either
re-examining the role of literary women in the 18th century or
exploring the development of British women's writing.' Shannon
Million, English Language Notes
'Because this work situates itself in the context of both literary
and social analyses, it is as valuable to the student of literature
as it is to the student of history.'
Deborah Blenkhorn, Canadian Literature, No. 135
'as the first modern full-length study of the bluestocking circle,
it provides a lot of very valuable material'
Vivien Jones, University of Leeds, British Journal of Eighteenth
Studies, Spring 1993
'Her approach is chiefly biographical, and includes an impressive
amount of well-documented historical material ... careful and
thorough survey ... Professor Myers's book will be of interest to
scholars concerned with the conditions of literary production as
they affected women writers at this period.'
Harriet Devine Jump, Edge Hill College, Review of English Studies,
Vol. 44, No. 176, Novembr 1993
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