Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction, Deborah Heller; A Copernican shift: or, remapping the Bluestocking heavens, Deborah and Steven Heller; Bluestockings and the cultures of natural history, Beth Fowkes Tobin; Cosmopolitan Bluestockings, Nicole Pohl; The Sappho of Gloucestershire: Sarah Chapone and Christian feminism, Clarissa Campbell Orr; John Burrows, Bluestocking Boswell, William McCarthy; ’Thrale’s entire’: Hester Lynch Thrale and the Anchor brewery, Michael J. Franklin; Hester Thrale Piozzi, the Bas Bleu, and the theatre, Felicity A. Nussbaum; Sisters across the centuries: Hannah More and Grace Irwin, Patricia Demers; Bluestocking work: learning, literature, and lore in the onset of modernity, Gary Kelly; Bibliography; Index.

About the Author

Deborah Heller is Professor of English at Western New Mexico University, USA.

Reviews

'This excellent volume of new research on the Bluestocking phenomenon makes an exciting intervention in the field of eighteenth-century literary studies. The editor has gathered together an impressive range of original essays. The use of contemporary network theory and visual mapping is particularly innovative and thought-provoking.' Elizabeth Eger, King's College London, UK