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Readers
79/100Critics
52/100Scholars
Author:
Susannah Gibson
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Date:
July 23, 2024
A group portrait of the eighteenth-century women who dared to imagine an active life for themselves in both mind and spirit.
What The Reviewers Say
Fast-paced and intimate.
Intelligent and engrossing..
Deft.
Gibson’s project is to present the bluestockings in their own late-18th-century context: as brilliant thinkers determined to show that women could be every bit as rational, erudite and witty as men.
