The bluestocking salons of eighteenth-century Britain

While pre-eighteenth-century British women writers mingled among acquaintances in what Margaret Ezell terms “coterie circles”, bluestocking women made one step ahead. They enjoyed a greater space and their gender-neutral gatherings placed them on a complementary equivalence with men in literary disc...

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Main Author:	Hasan, Md. Mahmudul
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	2018
Subjects:	HQ1101 Women. Feminism HQ12 Sexual life HQ503 The family. Marriage. Home PE English PR English literature
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/66580/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/66580/1/Bluestocking%20Salons%20of%20Eighteenth-Century%20Britain.pdf

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spelling	iium-665802018-10-11T08:41:18Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/66580/ The bluestocking salons of eighteenth-century Britain Hasan, Md. Mahmudul HQ1101 Women. Feminism HQ12 Sexual life HQ503 The family. Marriage. Home PE English PR English literature While pre-eighteenth-century British women writers mingled among acquaintances in what Margaret Ezell terms “coterie circles”, bluestocking women made one step ahead. They enjoyed a greater space and their gender-neutral gatherings placed them on a complementary equivalence with men in literary discussions. Emphasizing this aspect of bluestocking intellectual life, Bridget Hill, in Eighteenth-century Women: An Anthology, states that bluestocking women “not only insisted on their ability to converse on equal terms with men, but in their salons demonstrated such ability and received public recognition for their intellectual attainments and their conversational wit.” 2018-09-29 Article NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/66580/1/Bluestocking%20Salons%20of%20Eighteenth-Century%20Britain.pdf Hasan, Md. Mahmudul (2018) The bluestocking salons of eighteenth-century Britain. The Daily Star, Dhaka. p. 11.
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description	While pre-eighteenth-century British women writers mingled among acquaintances in what Margaret Ezell terms “coterie circles”, bluestocking women made one step ahead. They enjoyed a greater space and their gender-neutral gatherings placed them on a complementary equivalence with men in literary discussions. Emphasizing this aspect of bluestocking intellectual life, Bridget Hill, in Eighteenth-century Women: An Anthology, states that bluestocking women “not only insisted on their ability to converse on equal terms with men, but in their salons demonstrated such ability and received public recognition for their intellectual attainments and their conversational wit.”
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The bluestocking salons of eighteenth-century Britain

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