Name: Bluestockings: The First Women's Movement
SKU: 9781529370027
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Description

Dimensions	12.9 × 19.8 cm
Format
language1
Pages	352
Publisher	John Murray Press
Year Published	2025-2-27
Imprint	John Murray
Publication City/Country	London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10	1529370027
About The Author	Dr Susannah Gibson is an Affiliated Scholar of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. She holds a Ph.D. from Cambridge on the history of the life sciences of the eighteenth century, a master's degree in the history of nineteenth-century science, and a bachelor's degree in experimental physics. She is the author of two books: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? and The Spirit of Inquiry.
	Remarkable . . . this intricate story weaves together the many luminaries and intellectuals of 18th-century life . . . The Bluestockings burst out of the pages with unmistakable glee. Aided by Gibson's use of first-hand accounts from the women themselves, their complexity and individuality shine through . . . With beautifully written prose, Gibson allows the 18th century to be a delicately crafted backdrop to the lives she has chosen to explore
Other text	A captivating biography of the Bluestockings, revealing the lives and the legacy of this circle of women intellectuals who blazed a trail through eighteenth-century Britain.