As ever, enjoyed writing for Inside Story. Here is a review of a new book on the eighteenth-century intellectual women who called themselves bluestockings.
‘In my usual manner, I began this book by reading the conclusion. There, Susannah Gibson closes her new book on eighteenth-century intellectual women, The Bluestockings, by quoting Virginia Woolf. “It is the masculine values that prevail,” Woolf rued in 1928. “This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.” But what if the book is about women who lived through one of the most war-filled centuries in British history?”‘ To continue reading go here:
https://insidestory.org.au/i-weep-more-at-a-wedding-than-a-funeral/
Kate Fullagar 