In 1750 at the age of twenty-seven Sarah Scott published her first
novel, a conventional romance. A year later she left her husband
after only a few months of marriage and devoted herself thereafter
to writing and to promoting such causes as the creation of secular
and separatist female communities. This revolutionary concept was
given flesh in Millenium Hall, first published in 1762 and
generally thought to be the finest of her six novels. The text may
be seen as the manifesto of the 'bluestocking' movement-the protean
feminism that arose under eighteenth-century gentry capitalism
(originating in 1750, largely under the impetus of Scott's sister
Elizabeth Montagu), and that rejected a world which early feminists
saw symbolized in the black silk stockings demanded by formal
society. It is a comment on Western society as well as on the
strengths of Scott's novel that the message of Millenium Hall
continues to resonate strongly more than two centuries later.
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