In 1790, Mary Wollstonecraft wrote to Catharine Macaulay expressing shared beliefs about women's rights, echoing in Wollstonecraft's later work A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
Virginia Woolf recognized the influence of Macaulay and other Bluestockings in empowering future women writers to pursue intellectual freedom through earning a living from writing.
The Bluestockings challenged societal norms by prioritizing education and independence for women, despite the societal constraints on single and married women.
Susannah Gibson's study portrays the Bluestockings as pioneers of a feminist revolution, emphasizing their determination to think, write, and educate themselves in a restrictive British society.
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