The Bluestockings
In Our Time: Culture
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What Are the Main Causes of the Blue Stockings?
The decline of the blue stockings has been linked to increasing literacy and a growing literary market for women. The idea of female learnedness was related to the french revolution, to radical politics,. People like olan de gourge wrote their pamphlets in her own kind of declaration for the human rights. And later in the romantic period, you have that much more outspoken got some nice phrases theresd by by coleridge and haslett who were very kind of vicious against the blueStockingsmuch later.
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