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Bluestockings The First Women's Movement

Name: Bluestockings
Author: Susannah Gibson

Auteur: Susannah Gibson

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Susannah Gibson

Engels
Hardcover
9781529369991
29 februari 2024

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A captivating biography of the Bluestockings, revealing the lives and the legacy of this circle of women intellectuals who blazed a trail through eighteenth-century Britain.

'Sophisticated, rich and skilful . . . highlights the extraordinary place these women carved out for themselves against the odds' New Statesman

'Remarkable . . . The Bluestockings bust out of the pages with unmistakable glee . . . their complexity and individuality shine through' BBC History

'Spirited, lively and scholarly' Literary Review

'A story of sisterhood and empowerment' PHILIPPA GREGORY

In Britain in the 1750s, women had no power and no rights - all money and property belonged to their fathers or husbands. A brave group risked everything to think and live as they wished, despite the sneers of contemporaries who argued that books frazzled female brains and damaged their wombs.

Meet the Bluestockings:

ELIZABETH MONTAGU hosted a series of glittering salons in her London drawing room, where a circle of women and men discussed theatre, philosophy and the classics, competing to outdo each other in wit and brilliance. Discover how she took on Voltaire and won.

Whilst nursing twelve children and helping run her bullying husband's brewery, HESTER THRALE took key writers under her wing - Dr Johnson moved into her house for several years. Her vivid diaries offer a powerful chronicle of what happened when she finally decided to follow her heart.

Find out how poetess and former milkmaid ANN YEARSLEY fought back when her snobbish patron refused to hand over her earnings because she was working class and thus irresponsible . . .

Or how CATHERINE MACAULEY's eight volume history of England caused such a sensation that she became a leading light in the American Revolution - while her unorthodox love-life scandalised her contemporaries . . .

In this brilliant book, Susannah Gibson explores the lives and legacies of these and other figures who went on to inspire writers and thinkers from Mary Wollstonecraft to Virginia Woolf and lead the way for feminism.

Bluestockings: the unexpected and inspiring stories of the forgotten heroines of Britain's very first women's movement.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 29 februari 2024

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Hoofdauteur: Susannah Gibson
Hoofduitgeverij: John Murray Publishers Ltd

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Product breedte: 162 mm
Product hoogte: 38 mm
Product lengte: 236 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 162 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 38 mm
Verpakking lengte: 236 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 580 g

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EAN: 9781529369991

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Categorieën: Mens & Maatschappij

Geschiedenis

Sociale groepen

Genderstudies

Feminisme

Periodes

Nieuwe tijd (1500-1800)

Boeken
Taal: Engels
Boek, ebook of luisterboek?: Boek
Beschikbaarheid: Leverbaar
Periode: ca. 1500-1800

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