AGES ERA PERIOD
RESTORATION AND 18TH CENTURY
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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the bluestockings
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the coteries of plenty
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the Pre-Raphaelites
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the tattlers and spectators
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Blue Stockings Society leaders and hostesses were Elizabeth Montagu and Elizabeth Vesey.
Detailed explanation-2: -This society was founded by women, and included many prominent members of English society, both male and female, including Harriet Bowdler, Edmund Burke, Sarah Fielding, Samuel Johnson, and Frances Pulteney.
Detailed explanation-3: -Bluestocking, any of a group of women who in mid-18th-century England held “conversations” to which they invited men of letters and members of the aristocracy with literary interests. The word has come to be applied derisively to a woman who affects literary or learned interests.
Detailed explanation-4: -The play was developed during 2012 at the National Theatre Studio and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. Its first full production ran at Shakespeare’s Globe from 24 August to 11 October 2013. The printed play includes a dedication to female education activist and Nobel laureate, Malala Yousafzai.