Notable Members
Anna Laetitia Barbauld, James Beattie, Frances Boscawen, Henrietta Maria Bowdler, Edmund Burke, Frances Burney, Elizabeth Carter, Margaret Cavendish-Harley, Hester Chapone, Mary Delaney, Sarah Fielding, David Garrick, Samuel Johnson, Ada Lovelace, Catharine Macaulay, Elizabeth Montagu, Hannah More, William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, Clara Reeve, Sarah Scott, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Catherine Talbot, Hester Thrale, Elizabeth Vesey, Horace Walpole, and Anna Williams were all part of the Bluestocking circle at one time or another.
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