The Bluestocking Circle – as a new paradigm of collective collaboration
The Bluestocking Circle – as a new paradigm of collective collaboration

Summary/Abstract: This article explores the phenomenon of the Bluestocking literary society that came into being in the second half of the eighteenth century. Founded by wealthy and independently minded philanthropists, the literary discussion club grew into an important network of intellectuals who managed to enhance the female visibility in the public realm and played an important role in the combating gender stereotypes. In times when women were relegated to the domestic spheres and men engaged themselves in hot-headed political disputation those literary receptions provided not only a welcome distraction but also grew into a new paradigm of social intercourse.The article also investigates the rise, development and decline of the Bluestocking circle, through a close analysis of the lives and works of three women Elizabeth Vesey, Elizabeth Montague and Elizabeth carter, who made the corpus of the group.

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