Brilliant Women: 18th Century Bluestockings National Portrait Gallery, London

Hear about the meetings of the Bluestocking Circle.

The new fashion for biographies of illustrious intellectual women.

Intellectual and emotional friendship between women formed the foundation of bluestocking culture.

Changing attitudes to intellectual women.

The Living Muses of Great Britain in print and in paint.

How women had to remain virtuous while being able to explore new possibilities for self improvement.