Hello! I recently had a wonderful chat with the lovely Ploy Radford of the Past Matters Podcast about one of my favourite eighteenth century women, Elizabeth Montagu. Montagu was the so-called Queen of the Bluestocking Circle, a group of intellectuals – both men and women! – who often met in her London home.
You can listen below, and anywhere you get your podcasts!
Title image: Print made by John Raphael Smith, Mrs. Montagu, 1776, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, B1970.3.205.
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Just finished reading Bluestockings, The First Women’s Movement… by Susannah Gibson. dazzling salons, engaimng, very readable, including details of the 18th C bluestocking community in the village outside Bath where I used to ,live – Batheaston., They had an admirable policy of employing people who had disabilities. ..
No bluestockings in my family ! – More likely to have worked in coal mines or breweries – source of the wealth behind two illustrious ladies.
Dr. Lizzie Rogers 
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