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Bluestockings displayed : portraiture, performance and patronage, 1730-1830
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Bluestockings displayed : portraiture, performance and patronage, 1730-1830

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Romantic bluestockings: from muses to matrons / Anne Mellor
'To dazzle let the vain design': Alexander Pope's portrait gallery; or, the Impossibility of brilliant women / Emma Clery
Virtue, patriotism and female scholarship in bluestocking portraiture / Clare Barlow
Anne Seymour Damer: a sculptor of 'Republican perfection' / Alison Yarrington
The blues gone grey: portraits of bluestocking women in old age / Devoney Looser
Sacred love: Eliza Linley's voice / Joseph Roach
The learned female soprano / Susan Staves
Roles and role models: Montagu, Siddons, Lady Macbeth / Shearer West
Hester Thrale: 'what trace of the wit' / Felicity A. Nussbaum
Reading practices in Elizabeth Montagu's epistolary network of the 1750s / Markman Ellis
The queen of the blues, the Bluestocking Queen, and bluestocking masculinity / Clarissa Campbell-Orr
Luck be a lady: patronage and professionalism for women writers in the 1790s / Harriet Guest.

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Bluestockings displayed : portraiture, performance and patronage, 1730-1830. ISBN 9780521768801. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2013. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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