Bluestockings Displayed : Portraiture, Performance and Patronage, 1730-1830 (Paperback)

Introduction Elizabeth Eger; Part I. Portraits: 1. Romantic bluestockings: from muses to matrons Anne Mellor; 2. 'To dazzle let the vain design': Alexander Pope's portrait gallery, or, the impossibility of brilliant women Emma Clery; 3. Virtue, patriotism and female scholarship in bluestocking portraiture Clare Barlow; 4. Anne Seymour Damer: a sculptor of 'republican perfection' Alison Yarrington; 5. The blues gone grey: portraits of bluestocking women in old age Devoney Looser; Part II. Performance: 6. Sacred love: Eliza Linley's voice Joseph Roach; 7. The learned female soprano Susan Staves; 8. Roles and role models: Montagu, Siddons, Lady Macbeth Shearer West; 9. Hester Thrale: 'what trace of the wit?' Felicity A. Nussbaum; Part III. Patronage and Networks: 10. Reading practices in Elizabeth Montagu's epistolary network of the 1750s Markman Ellis; 11. The queen of the blues, the bluestocking queen, and bluestocking masculinity Clarissa Campbell Orr; 12. Luck be a lady: patronage and professionalism for women writers in the 1790s Harriet Guest.