Book contents
- Bluestockings Displayed
- Bluestockings Displayed
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Portraits
- 1 Romantic bluestockings: from muses to matrons
- 2 ‘To Dazzle let the Vain design’: Alexander Pope’s portrait gallery; or, the impossibility of brilliant women
- 3 Virtue, patriotism and female scholarship in bluestocking portraiture
- 4 Anne Seymour Damer: a sculptor of ‘republican perfection’
- 5 The blues gone grey: portraits of bluestocking women in old age
- Part II Performance
- Part III Patronage and networks
- Bibliography
- Index
2 - ‘To Dazzle let the Vain design’: Alexander Pope’s portrait gallery; or, the impossibility of brilliant women
from Part I - Portraits
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2014
- Bluestockings Displayed
- Bluestockings Displayed
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Portraits
- 1 Romantic bluestockings: from muses to matrons
- 2 ‘To Dazzle let the Vain design’: Alexander Pope’s portrait gallery; or, the impossibility of brilliant women
- 3 Virtue, patriotism and female scholarship in bluestocking portraiture
- 4 Anne Seymour Damer: a sculptor of ‘republican perfection’
- 5 The blues gone grey: portraits of bluestocking women in old age
- Part II Performance
- Part III Patronage and networks
- Bibliography
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Bluestockings DisplayedPortraiture, Performance and Patronage, 1730–1830, pp. 39 - 59Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013