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Brilliant Women: 18th-Century Bluestockings
Elizabeth Eger and Lucy Peltz
#UC1272
Hardcover, 159 pages; 2008
$50.00
 Members' Price: $42.50
Well, it's about time! We've been awaiting—and you've been asking for—a book about the bluestockings, those eighteenth-century English women (and more than a few men!) who inspired our catalog and gave us our name. (The original bluestockings often referred to themselves in French as bas bleu.) The National Portrait Gallery in London organized an exhibit about the bluestockings this year, and published Brilliant Women to accompany it. Not surprisingly, Elizabeth Eger, who teaches English at King's College, and Lucy Peltz, a curator at the gallery, did a brilliant job. Portraits from the Gallery's collection illustrate the scholarly, yet accessible text. The book also explores the bluestocking legacy, with the inclusion of a bas bleu lineage from Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley to Germaine Greer and other contemporary figures. Full of color plates and other images, Brilliant Women celebrates the historical import and social impact of its remarkable and fascinating subjects.
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