"Also published as volume 65, numbers 1 and 2 of the Huntington Library quarterly"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: a Bluestocking historiography / Nicole Pohl, Betty A. Schellenberg -- Elizabeth Robinson Montagu Collection at the Huntington Library / Mary L. Robertson -- Biographical sketches of principal Bluestocking women / compiled by Anna Miegon -- A Bluestocking bibliography / compiled by Janice Blathwayt -- Bluestocking feminism / Harriet Guest -- Church of England clergy and women writers / Susan Staves -- Clara Reeve, provincial Bluestocking : from the old Whigs to the modern liberal state / Gary Kelly -- "Out rushed a female to protect the Bard" : the Bluestocking defense of Shakespeare / Elizabeth Eger -- Elizabeth Montagu, Bluestocking businesswoman / Elizabeth Child -- The politics of sociability : public dimensions of the Bluestocking millennium / Emma Major -- Two versions of community : Montagu and Scott / Betty Rizzo -- Subjectivity unbound : Elizabeth Vesey as the Sylph in Bluestocking correspondence / Deborah Heller -- "Rags of mortality" : negotiating the body in the Bluestocking letters / Jane Magrath -- Bluestocking Sapphism and the economies of desire / Susan S. Lanser.