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BLUESTOCKINGS: A HISTORY OF THE FIRST WOMEN'S MOVEMENT BY SUSANNAH GIBSON Dice Tower As the guardian of theAn 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: