The Bluestockings

Karen O'Brien at King's College London

Elizabeth Eger at King's College London

Nicole Pohl at Oxford Brookes University

Bluestocking circle - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Blue Stockings Society - Wikipedia

READING LIST:

Rosemary Baird, Mistress of the House: Great Ladies and Grand Houses 1670-1830 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003)

Norma Clarke, The Rise and Fall of the Woman of Letters (Pimlico, 2004)

Norma Clarke, Dr Johnson’s Women (Pimlico, 2005)

E. J. Clery, The Feminization Debate in Eighteenth-Century England: Literature, Commerce and Luxury (Palgrave Schol, 2004)

Elizabeth Eger (ed.), Bluestockings Displayed: Portraiture, Performance and Patronage, 1730-1830 (Cambridge University Press, 2013)

Elizabeth Eger, Bluestockings: Women of Reason from Enlightenment to Romanticism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)

Elizabeth Eger and Lucy Peltz, Brilliant Women: 18th-Century Bluestockings (Yale University Press, 2008)

Harriet Guest, Small Change: Women, Learning, Patriotism, 1750-1810 (University of Chicago Press, 2000)

Sylvia Harcstark Myers, The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England (Clarendon Press, 1990)

Vivien Jones (ed.), Women in the Eighteenth Century: Constructions of Femininity (Routledge, 1990)

Gary Kelly (ed.), Bluestocking Feminism: Writings of the Bluestocking Circle, 1738-1785 – 6 volumes (Pickering & Chatto, 1999)

Karen O’Brien, Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Cambridge University Press, 2009)

Nicole Pohl, The Collected Letters of Sarah Robinson Scott (Pickering & Chatto/Huntington Library Press, 2013)

Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg (eds.), Reconsidering the Bluestockings (University of California Press, 2003)

Susan Staves, A Literary History of Women’s Writing in Britain, 1660-1789 (Cambridge University Press, 2010)