The Bluestockings
Age band: 13+
Looky Rating System: Violence 0/5, Love & Romance 2/5, Mental Health 0/5, Language 1/5, Substance Use 0/5, Fear / Horror 0/5, Fantasy / Supernatural 0/5, LGBTQ+ Representation 0/5.
Description
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.