Clever girls; 18th-century intellectuals.(Brilliant Women: 18th-Century Bluestockings)

The Economist (US) | March 22, 2008 | Copyright

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An exhibition about bluestockings puts brilliant women in the frame

THINK of the word "bluestocking" and you are likely to conjure up something female, formidable and frumpy--a dingy corner of feminism, the historical equivalent of dungarees. "Brilliant Women", a new show at London's National Portrait Gallery, blows all that away.

Between 1750 and 1790 a high tide of British confidence lifted into prominence a number of intellectual and creative women, some of whom occasionally met for conversation. (The name stuck after an ...

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