196 results for bluestocking

20 June 1787
Actor John Palmer briefly opened the first...

23 September 1782
Covent Garden Theatre re-opened after a three-month...

Shortly before 20 April 1759
George Frederick Handel died after spending...

13 February 1751
William Hogarth advertised the imminent availability...

1882
An Ancient Monuments Act passed through parliament:...

2 February 1785
Sarah Siddons first played Lady Macbeth (a...

18 August 1746
Lord Kilmarnock and Lord Balmerino, who had...

1815
Elizabeth Appleton published Private Education;...

Appleton warned parents that many women seeking governess jobs, and many books written for young children, were inferior and inadequate. She blamed the vast numbers of badly written books for children on the rush by men who felt threatened by the bluestockings,
Burmester, James et al. English Books. James Burmester Rare Books.
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and who therefore dashed into print without knowing anything about education.

8 May 1777
The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley...

3 December 1751
Christopher Smart, as Mrs Mary Midnight,...

January 1750
English roads and streets were hotbeds of...

1814
George Stephenson's first steam railway engine...

By 4 December 1745
The Young Pretender's Jacobite army arrived...

10 February 1786
For her benefit night at Covent Garden Theatre,...

7 December 1875
The Historical Manuscripts Commission was...

21 June 1737
The Licensing Act received royal assent:...

31 October 1729
Another new London theatre opened: Goodman's...

11 November 1779
One of Arkwright's new, highly-mechanized...

Late 1737 to spring 1738
A group of women calling themselves Shakespeare's...

1759
Josiah Wedgwood leased a pottery at Burslem...

11 April 1747
The last of the Jacobite rebel lords, Simon,...

1769
Josiah Wedgwood opened a new pottery at Etruria...

12 January 1895
The National Trust was founded at Grosvenor...

3 March 1770
Hissing from supporters of John Wilkes prevented...

8 August 1781
At the Haymarket Theatre, a transvestite...