Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
Subjectivity Unbound: Elizabeth Vesey as the Sylph in Bluestocking Correspondence. |
| Authors: |
Heller, Deborah |
| Source: |
Huntington Library Quarterly. 2002, Vol. 65 Issue 1/2, p215. 20p. |
| Subject Terms: |
British women authors, 18th century English literature |
| Geographic Terms: |
England |
| People: |
Vesey, Elizabeth |
| Abstract: |
Discusses the life and works of Elizabeth Vesey, an Irishwoman and a first-generation Bluestocking. Letters that Elizabeth Carter wrote to Vesey and to Elizabeth Montagu about Vesey; Letters in Vesey's own hand that have been preserved in the Huntington Library Montagu Collection; Argument that the notion of an ungendered, autonomous self provided a resource for women's practices of freedom in the second half of the 18th century in Great Britain. |
| Database: |
Education Research Complete |
