Bluestocking
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Bluestocking is a term for an educated, intellectual woman, originally a member of the 18th-century Blue Stockings Society from England led by the hostess and critic Elizabeth Montagu, the "Queen of t
1778 painting of the Blue Stockings Society
1815 caricature of bluestockings by Thomas Rowlandson
Hannah More
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Hannah More was an English writer, philanthropist, poet and verse dramatist. She was active the circles of Samuel Johnson, Joshua Reynolds and David Garrick and wrote on moral and religious subjects.
Bluestocking
…1715–1791), Hester Chapone (1727–1801) and the classicist Elizabeth Carter (1717–1806). In the following generation came Hester Lynch Piozzi (1741–1821), Hannah More (1745–1833) and Frances Burney (1752–1840). The term now more broadly applies to women who show interest in literary or intellectual matters. Until the…
Portrait by Henry William Pickersgill, 1821
The birthplace of Hannah More on Manor Road, Fishponds
Biscuit porcelain figure by Mintons, 1830s