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Bluestockings - The First Women's Movement (Hardcover)
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Bluestockings - The First Women's Movement (Hardcover)
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List price R742
Loot Price R594
Discovery Miles 5 940
You Save R148 (20%)
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Sipping tea in a glittering London drawing room, a circle of women
discuss theatre, philosophy and the classics, competing to outdo
each other in wit and brilliance. Later, one of these women lies on
the floor of her husband's brewhouse, blood seeping through her
skirts as she miscarries her child. Hester Thrale's husband had
ignored her repeated pleas to take her home until his business
there was finished. In Bluestockings, Susannah Gibson charts the
struggles and immense achievements of a group of trailblazing women
who risked their reputations to become public intellectuals.
Burdened with ailing children and unsympathetic husbands, enduring
the sneers of contemporaries who thought books frazzled women's
brains and damaged their wombs, they read, wrote and published
their work. Copies of Hannah More's poems were requested by King
George III, Elizabeth Montagu's rebuttal to Voltaire's critique of
Shakespeare thoroughly rattled the great Frenchman, and Catherine
Macaulay's histories were so acclaimed in America that on her visit
there she was hosted by George Washington. Earning money, fame, and
a modicum of power, the Bluestockings laid essential foundations
for future feminists to build upon. Bluestockings tells the
fascinating, devastating, forgotten stories of these heroines of
Britain's very first women's movement.
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Imprint: |
John Murray Publishers Ltd
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
February 2024 |
Authors: |
Susannah Gibson
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Dimensions: |
240 x 156mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
320 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-5293-6999-1 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-5293-6999-1 |
Barcode: |
9781529369991 |
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