Search Results for Bluestockings

...Hilary Havens Frances Burney's opinion of the Bluestocking circle has often been interpreted negatively due to her comic play, The Witlings (1779), which ridicules members of the group. In fact, Burney's perception of the Bluestockings, explained here through her relationships with three...

...Eve Tavor Bannet Duke University Press 2006 The Bluestocking Sisters: Women’s Patronage, Millenium Hall, and “The Visible Providence of a Country” Eve Tavor Bannet University...

... of the nineteenth century. Marianne profited from the older woman’s superior knowledge, Bluestocking experience, and personal encouragement, but ultimately chose another path altogether, that of Evangelical reforms, moving on into the circles of Arthur Young, whom she assisted as a secretary, and William...

... writers increasingly adopted roles as daughters, sisters, wives, and servants to literary men, roles not unlike what the literature of sensibility prescribed for fictional heroines and conduct-book readers. In chapter 6, Staves reviews the Bluestocking and sentimental writers whose careers...

..., but to the English Bluestockings, which is to say to coteries of writers: “The British Bluestockings,” she writes, “can lay claim to being the mothers of Romantic women’s sociable activities” (9). The Bluestockings—­ Anna Seward, Elizabeth Carter, Elizabeth Montagu, Hannah More, Hes- ter Thrale Piozzi—were...

... bankruptcy, she was “drawn into taking an active managerial role in the family business” (55). London also offered Piozzi the opportunity to participate in more formal intellectual gatherings, such as those of the Bluestocking set, and eventually to establish her own salon at Streatham Park. While readers...

... that Sarah Scott’s correspondence unfolds. On the one hand, Elizabeth Mon- tagu’s well-­known comment on her sister’s life and work perhaps illustrates most aptly how Sarah Scott is remembered in modern times: as a proficient Bluestocking writer and reformer. The impression that Sarah Scott sought...

... was doing cultural studies before there was such a thing as cultural studies. Since transferring the journal, we have received essays on Burney, Defoe, Dryden, Haywood, and Johnson, but also on such topics as balloons, bluestockings, cross-dressing pirates, edu- Eighteenth...

... members of the Bluestocking circle. Carter and Talbot s close friendship may have reminded Burney of her relationship with Susan. Their Series of Letters mirrors the trajectory of Burney s grief, allowing us to date Consolatory Extracts and trace the progress and cir- culation of Burney s public...

... figures in the book, whom Major for good reasons dislikes labeling as Bluestockings (81 – ​­84), are the Anglicans Elizabeth Montagu, her sister Sarah Scott, their friends Catherine Talbot, Elizabeth Carter, and Hannah More, and, to a lesser extent, the Dissenter Anna Laetitia Barbauld...

...: Camden House, 2005). Pp. 333. $90. £50. ISBN 1-57113-183-3 Nicholls, Angus. Goethe’s Concept of the Daemonic: After the Ancients (Rochester: Camden House, 2006). Pp. 313. $75. ISBN 1-57113-307-0 Pohl, Nicole, and Betty A. Schellenberg, eds. Reconsidering the Bluestockings (San Marino...

... businesswomen who operated fan shops along the length of Cheapside. Erickson reveals Frances Burney’s kinship connections to City businesswomen, suggesting that her mother’s career had a formative impact on her professional identity. Mascha Hansen’s article, “A Bluestocking Friendship: The Correspon...

... influential in the early nineteenth century, critical opinion, “once the province of mixed gatherings of the like-minded (often pre- sided over by an exceptionally brilliant woman, such as Elizabeth Montagu, the ‘queen’ of the bluestockings in London, or Seward in Lichfield) became profes- sionalized...

... within this well- known circle. The Bluestockings Schellenberg prefers to refer to them as the Montagu- Lyttleton coterie were linked by intense friendships, which facilitated the interpenetrating scribal and print- based media systems of the time (62); they sought self and national improvement...

... (1750s). Addressing models of “excess” and “reserve” in the epistolary form, Ballaster compares both women’s engagement in an “economics of ethical conversation.” Nicole Pohl’s article derives from her current work in preparing an edi- tion of the unpublished letters of the bluestocking Sarah...

..., and the Bluestockings Elizabeth Mon- tagu, Frances Boscawen, and Frances Burney. Yet, as Alicia Weisberg-­Roberts stresses in the first introductory essay, scholarship has tended to reduce Delany to little more than a spokesperson for her time and has failed to consider her as an individual. Historians have...

... and unreliability as a correspondent” (62). In examining Cecilia , Havens comments on the similarities between the novel and Burney's play, The Witlings , and explains how Burney's “two ‘daddies’ ” (her father and Samuel Crisp) advised her to suppress the play because its sharp satire of Bluestockings (63...

... century? Rousseau and the Bluestocking Mother In April of 1766, Suzanne Curchod Necker gave birth to the infant Anne- Louise Germaine, who was to become the celebrated Madame de Staël; and she conveyed her brief impressions of this signal event in her life in cor- respondence to a friend. Though...

... 1778, verbally to attack Elizabeth Montagu, “queen of the Bluestockings” and facilitator of the Horace Walpole-William Mason literary coterie ranged against Johnson. (Montagu had been invited to Streatham by Hester Thrale to meet Burney.) Johnson recounted to her that “when I was beginning the World...

... 307. 19.  See, for example, Deborah Heller, “Subjectivity Unbound: Elizabeth Vesey as the Sylph in Bluestocking Correspondence, Huntington Library Quarterly 65 (2002): 215–34; Sonja Lawrenson, “Frances Sheridan’s The History of Nourjahad and the Sultan of Smock-Alley,” Eighteenth-Century...