Brilliant women
Subtitle: 18th-century bluestockings
By: Elizabeth Eger and Lucy Peltz.
Contributors: Peltz, Lucy.; National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain)
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New Haven, Ct
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9780300141030
Subjects: Macaulay, Catharine, -- 1731-1791; Wollstonecraft, Mary, -- 1759-1797; More, Hannah, -- 1745-1833,; Women intellectuals -- England -- History -- 18th century; Women -- England -- Social conditions -- 18th century; English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism; England -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
Notes: Published to accompany the exhibition held at the National Portrait Gallery, London, from 13 March to 15 June 2008.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 152-154) and index.
Table of contents: title: The bluestocking circle : friendship, patronage and learning / Elizabeth Eger; title: Living muses : constructing and celebrating the professional woman in literature and the arts / Lucy Peltz; title: 'A revolution in female manners' : women, politics and reputation in the late eighteenth century / Lucy Peltz; title: The bluestocking legacy / Elizabeth Eger.