Conference | Publication

Exhibition: The Bluestocking circle | Celebrating Modern Muses | A Revolution in Female Manners

Audio

Hear readings from a selection of letters, poems and books written by or about the women who feature in the exhibition. For a full textual transcript please click here.

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Hear about the meetings of the Bluestocking Circle

Bluestocking Conversation Parties
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Discover how women had to remain virtuous while being able to explore new possibilities for self improvement

Women, Virtue and Learning
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Hear about how intellectual and emotional friendship between women formed the foundation of bluestocking culture

Female Friendship
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Discover more about the Living Muses of Great Britain in print and in paint

The Living Muses of Great Britain
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An introduction to discover the eighteenth-century fashion for biographies of illustrious intellectual women

Celebrating Intellectual Women
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Hear about the changing attitudes to intellectual women and the demise of the bluestockings

Revolution, Representation and Reputation
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