Blue Stockings
ANN YEARSLEY (1753-1806)
Poems on various subjects
London: Printed for the author, and sold by G.G.J. and J. Robinson ...; M,DCC,LXXXVII [1787]
The daughter of a dairywoman in Clifton, Bristol, Yearsley published three collections of poems (this is the second). Initially patronized by Hannah More, their friendship ended in some bitterness. She also wrote a play and a gothic novel. For more information, see Robert Southey, Lives of the uneducated poets (1836).
ELIZABETH CARTER (1717-1806)
“A Night Piece”
In: The muse’s banquet: consisting of a select collection of pieces in the different species of poetical composition by the most celebrated authors. The fifth edition, considerably enlarged
Dublin: Printed by Robert Burton ... MDCCLXXIX [1779]
From the James Phillips collection.
A member of the Blue Stockings, an informal group of intelligent, learned, and sociable ladies that flourished in London in the second half of the 18th century, Carter learned Latin, Greek, and Hebrew in childhood with her brothers, later acquiring French, Italian, German, Portuguese, and Arabic. Dr. Johnson thought her one of the best Greek scholars he had known.
ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD (1743-1825)
The works of Anna Lætitia Barbauld: with a memoir
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green,1825
Important parts of the work compiled here appear in book form for the first time, including some feminist poems which were originally deemed unsuitable for publication. The Works was edited by Barbauld’s niece, Lucy Aikin, with a brief biography.
HANNAH MORE (1745-1833)
The works of Hannah More, with a sketch of her life.
Boston: Goodrich, 1827
HANNAH MORE (1745-1833)
Memoirs of the life and correspondence of Mrs. Hannah More
New York: Harper & Bros., 1835
A prolific writer and member of the Blue Stocking circle, More was the friend of Burke, Dr. Johnson, Samuel Richardson, Joshua Reynolds, Mrs. Montagu, and Horace Walpole. Her letters give a full picture of the intellectual and social world she inhabited.