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Before the bluestockings
- Author
- Wallas, Ada Radford, 1859-
- Title
- Before the bluestockings / by Ada Wallas (Mrs. Graham Wallas)
- Format
- Book
- Published
- London : G. Allen & Unwin Ltd., [1929]
- Description
- 223, [1] p., incl. front. (fascim.) plates, ports, facsims : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Notes
- "These six essays are the result of an attempt to understand, mainly by the study of individual lives, the postion of educated Englishwomen from the restoration to the end of the first third of the eighteenth century."--Foreword.
- Contents
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- Hannah Woolley
- A philosopher (Lord Halifax) and his daughter
- Locke's friend, Lady Masham
- Mary Astell
- Elizabeth Elstob
- The debt of women to Sir Richard Steele.
- Kinsey subjects
- Women history. Status of women--United Kingdom. Social conditions--United Kingdom.
- Subject headings
- United Kingdom.