BLUESTOCKINGS: A HISTORY OF THE FIRST WOMEN'S MOVEMENT BY SUSANNAH GIBSON CO California: sunshine

California: sunshine

This Gothic novel that explores the destructive thirst for knowledge

Collects previously published Discipline Powers

and a predilection for violence

BLUESTOCKINGS: A HISTORY OF THE FIRST WOMEN'S MOVEMENT BY SUSANNAH GIBSON CO California: sunshineAn illuminating group portrait of the eighteenth century women who dared to imagine an active life for themselves in both mind and spirit. In England in the 1700s, a woman who was an intellectual, spoke out, or wrote professionally was considered unnatural. After all, as the wisdom of the era dictated, a clever womanif there were such a thingwould never make a good wife. But a circle of women called the Bluestockings did something extraordinary: