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CFP: The Prospect of Improvement: A Bluestocking Landscape, EMCO Conference, 8-9 Sept 2020
Charles Dibdin and David Garrick’s Shakespeare Jubilee 1769, performed by Retrospect Opera
CFC – FEMINISMO/S, “Departures and Arrivals: Women, Mobility, and Travel Writing”: Deadline 1 Sept 2019
NEW BOOK: “The Picturesque, The Sublime, The Beautiful: Visual Artistry in the Works of Charlotte Smith (1749-1806)” by Valerie Derbyshire (Vernon Press)
REGISTRATION OPEN, ‘Locating the Burneys: From the Margins to the Mainstream’, Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln, 30 July – 1 August

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Bluestocking Circle

The Bluestocking Circle was a group of writers, artists and thinkers who met in the London homes of Elizabeth Montagu, Elizabeth Vesey and Frances Boscawen. These fashionable hostesses invented a new kind of informal sociability and nurtured a sense of intellectual community. The term “bluestocking” evolved from the scholar Benjamin Stillingfleet’s decision to abandon formal evening dress and obey Vesey’s call to “Come in your blue stockings.” Guests included the leading literary, political and cultural figures of the day, including Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke, David and Eva Garrick and later Hannah More and Frances Burney.

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