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The Bluestockings: A History of the First Women's Movement
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One of The New Yorker’s Best Books of the Year
“Intimate social history.” —New York Times Book Review
An illuminating group portrait of the eighteenth-century women who dared to imagine an active life for themselves in both mind and spirit.
In England in the 1700s, a woman who was an intellectual, spoke out, or wrote professionally was considered unnatural. After all, as the wisdom of the era dictated, a clever woman—if there were such a thing—would never make a good wife. But a circle of wo...