The original bluestockings were not a socially cohesive, tightly defined, or exclusively gendered group, but simply a number of people, mostly women, who shared attitudes, spent time together in mixed company where women were prominent...
Publishing
Anne Francis
She quoted Pindar
in Greek on the title page, and dedicated the work in a full-page inscription to John Parkhurst
of Epsom, author of a Hebrew lexicon,
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
as a small testament to his merit, and...
Timeline
1785: Benjamin Stillingfleet, writer and male member...
Building item
1785
Benjamin Stillingfleet
, writer and male member of the Bluestocking circle, edited and introduced a volume of scientific Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Natural History, Husbandry, and Physick.
Shteir, Ann B. Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
