During the 18th century a remarkable group of women formed the Bluestocking Salon, where women and men met to debate contemporary ideas and promote the life of the mind. Together, these cultural innovators helped forge new roles for women as influential thinkers, writers, and artists, and their creative achievements were publicly celebrated. 
Richly illustrated with portraits, prints, and personal artifacts, Brilliant Women tells the story of this fascinating group of women. The authors chart the changing fortunes of the female intellectual and explore how a number of bluestocking women, such as artist Angelica Kauffmann, historian Catharine Macaulay, and early feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, used portraiture to advance their work and their reputations in a period framed by the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. 
Brilliant Women pays tribute to the friendships and achievements of these bluestocking women, presenting new information on the range of cultural activities in which they were engaged, as well as celebrating their legacy.

Brilliant Women: 18th-Century Bluestockings

Arts & Photography

Eger, Elizabeth

Peltz, Lucy

History & Criticism

Yale University Press

Feminist scholarship and criticism has retrieved the Bluestocking women from their marginal position in 18th-century literature. This work collects the principal writings of these women, together with a selection of their letters. Each volume is annotated and all texts are edited and reset.

Bluestocking Feminism, Volume 1: Writings of the Bluestocking Circle, 1738-91

Literature & Fiction

KELLY, JENNIFER

Kelly,Gary

Hawley, Judith

Zuk, Rhoda

Routledge

Bluestocking Feminism, Volume 2: Writings of the Bluestocking Circle, 1738-92

Bluestocking Feminism, Volume 3: Writings of the Bluestocking Circle, 1738-93

Bluestocking Feminism, Volume 4: Writings of the Bluestocking Circle, 1738-94

Bluestocking Feminism, Volume 5: Writings of the Bluestocking Circle, 1738-95

Bluestocking Feminism, Volume 6: Writings of the Bluestocking Circle, 1738-96

Eighteenth-century Bluestocking women were, on the whole, an upper-class and politically and socially conservative group. For this reason, their writings have been largely neglected in feminist and literary history. In recent decades, however, feminist scholarship and criticism has retrieved the Bluestocking women from their marginal position in eighteenth-century literature. This work collects the principal writings of these women, together with a selection of their letters. Each volume is annotated and all texts are edited and reset. The collection will be of interest to students of eighteenth century history, literature, culture and gender studies.

Bluestocking Feminism: Writings of the Bluestocking Circle, 1738-90

British & Irish

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