Guest, Harriet. Small Change: Women, Learning, Patriotism, 1750-1810. University of Chicago Press.
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By December 1760
Canal building was in progress in Lancashire,...
7 December 1666
This was probably the first day a public...
October 1745
The Young Pretender's Jacobite army crossed...
7 December 1732
John Rich opened a new theatre in Covent...
7 May 1663
The King's Company (managed by Thomas Killigrew...
23 September 1775
Drury Lane Theatre re-opened after being...
31 May 1721
The Haymarket Theatre, or Opera House, shifted...
From 30 July 1760
Following a petition to parliament, seven...
March 1734
Mary Edwards, an heiress who had made a clandestine...
19 August 1775
Exactly three months after the battle of...
Exactly three months after the battle of Lexington, bluestocking
, still eaten up with anxiety for her only surviving son, demanded rhetorically whether the colonies would, when destroyed, yield either taxes or traffic?
29 December 1720
A new playhouse, the New Theatre in the Haymarket,...
1769
Richard Arkwright set up a water-powered...
1759
Jedediah Strutt invented a machine frame...
30 October 1779
The Critic; or, A Tragedy Rehears'd by Richard...
18 December 1714
A new theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields (built...
After 7 April 1668
On the death of Sir William Davenant, his...
26 January 1797
Elizabeth (Younge) Pope, who had been acting...
5 January 1699
Actress Elizabeth Barry wrote that she never...
1785
Benjamin Stillingfleet, writer and male member...
, writer and male member of the Bluestocking circle, edited and introduced a volume of scientific Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Natural History, Husbandry, and Physick.
13 March 2008
The National Portrait Gallery in London opened...
The
in London opened an exhibition entitled Brilliant Women, featuring paintings and rarely seen portraits, satirical prints and personal artefacts of the Bluestocking Circle.