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Mary Delany [ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]

… her own assemblies. People > Art and Literature Practices > Reading & Writing Mots-clés propriety Court Assemblies woman Bluestockings Correspondence Mary Delany (1700-1788) was born Mary Granville and educated so as to become a Lady of the … were different in no respect from other parties, but that the company did not play at cards. 10 Diffident of cards, the Bluestockings also disregarded politics and scandal but aimed to combat the domestic vision of women, showing that men … Boscawen, Elizabeth Montagu and Elizabeth Vesey make it very unlikely that she could have been kept away from the Bluestockings. As early as in 1754, she invited Elizabeth Montagu, Catherine Talbot and Elizabeth Foley to her place; she …

Frances Glanville Boscawen [ Aristocracy / Art and Literature ]

… entertaining in London as well as in the country . People > Aristocracy People > Art and Literature Mots-clés Bluestockings Conversation Letters Parties Drums London Politics Born in 1719, Frances Evelyn Glanville was a distant … Co. 1942), ch. XVI, for her interest in, and disapproval of, the American War. 7 . Elizabeth Montagu, the Queen of the Bluestockings: Her Correspondence from 1720 to 1761, ed Emily Climenson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, [1906] … the latest generation of intellectual women – Mary Wollstonecraft and Helen Maria Williams – whose progressive ideas the bluestockings of the first generation did not share, but may nonetheless have inspired. 18 . Boscawen’s second son …

Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi [ Art and Literature / Travel ]

… by means of her social gatherings and through her literary works. People > Art and Literature People > Travel Mots-clés Bluestockings Salon Literature biography Italy commerce Born into a Welsh family proud of its ancestry, Hester Lynch … Press, 1985). Nussbaum, Felicity A., ‘Hester Thrale Piozzi, the Bas Bleu, and the Theatre’ in Deborah Heller (ed.), Bluestockings Now! The Evolution of a Social Role (Farnham: Routledge, 2015), p. 121-37. Smith, Tania S., ‘Learning … influence she brought to British sociability both by means of her social gatherings and through her literary works. … Bluestockings … Salon … Literature … biography … Italy … commerce … Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi …

Elizabeth (Robinson) Montagu [ Art and Literature ]

… Résumé Called the ‘Queen of the Bluestockings’ in her own time, Elizabeth Montagu was perhaps the best-known salon hostess during the second half of the … I consider, not merely as pleasures transient, but as permanent blessings […]’ ( Myers 11). 1 . See Eger, Elizabeth, Bluestockings: Women of Reason from Enlightenment to Romanticism (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), p. 68. 2 . See … The Public Dimensions of the Bluestocking Millennium’, in Nicole Pohl and Betty A. Schellenberg (eds), Reconsidering the Bluestockings (San Marino: Huntington Library, 2003), p. 175-192, p.178. 3 . Sylvia Harcstack Myers, The Bluestocking …

Hannah More (and philanthropic sociability) [ Religion & Philanthropy / Politics & Society / Religious Belief ]

… celebrity fed on that of the other members of the bluestocking circle. Conversely, as part of the second generation of bluestockings she helped maintain it in the limelight. Even in the case of her friendship with Wilberforce, it is … Demers . 13 13 . Patricia Demers, ‘Sisters Across the Centuries: Hannah More and Grace Irwin’, in Deborah Heller (ed.), Bluestockings Now! The Evolution of a Social Role (Farnham: Ashgate, 2015), p. 157, 173. Nonetheless, in spite of her … in Eighteenth-Century English Education ‘ ,  History of Education (vol. 33, n° 5, 2004), p. 585- 595. Eger, Elizabeth, Bluestockings Displayed: Portraiture, Performance and Patronage, 1730-1830 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013). …

Mary Berry [ Art and Literature ]

… from 1825 onwards, in Curzon Street. Berry, herself an avid reader, who studied Greek, stood in the tradition of the bluestockings, which she helped to preserve into the nineteenth century, but she was not close enough to the original …