2025-2026
Editor: Olivia Hurton
Ten Days to Expose a System: Nellie Bly’s Intervention in Institutional Power — ‘Wild and Frail and Beautiful’: When Virginia Woolf met Euphemia Lamb — Hedwig Klein: Between Language and Erasure under the Third Reich — Vivienne Westwood: Punk Anarchist or Monarchist? — A singularissima donna in Renaissance Italy: The cultural patronage of Alfonsina Orsini de’ Medici — Sylvia Plath’s Fig Tree: Navigating Feminist Choice — Cinema of True Love: Celine Song’s Materialists — The Politics of Charm: Nancy Mitford, Satire, and the Elegant Face of Fascism — ‘Paper is Deynty’: How the Paston Women Wrote History — Jenny Saville and ‘The Anatomy of Painting’
2024-2025
Editor: Olivia Hurton
Daphne du Maurier and Fashion — The Rani of Jhansi: Beyond the British Perspective — Marie Skłodowska-Curie: “Nothing in life is to be feared” — Sylvia and Christabel Pankhurst: When is a feminist no longer a feminist? — The Disarming Power of the Artistic Double: Identity, Gender, and Heritage in Frida Kahlo’s ‘The Two Fridas’ — ‘Make me Juno’: What Sabrina Carpenter’s pop music can tell us about 21st century feminism — 250th Anniversary: Jane Austen’s ‘Meanness’ — Prosaic Settings, Unepic Loves, and Grotesque Muses: Patrizia Cavalli and Her Poetics of Disenchantment — Anne Treisman: The Cognitive Neuroscience of ‘The Ghost in the Machine’ — Critiquing Desire: A Review of The Right to Sex by Amia Srinivasan — Daughter of Eve: Hildegard of Bingen’s Interpretation of the Fall — From the Prison Cell: Tatiana Gnedich’s Translation of Don Juan — Queen of the Blues: Elizabeth Montagu and Shakespearean Criticism — Grace and Goodwill: Audrey Hepburn’s Off-screen Influence — Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun: Rebellion and Ressemblance — Edith Sitwell: Beyond the Façade — Antonia the Great: Olivia Hurton in conversation with pioneer of women’s histories, Lady Antonia Fraser — ‘What I can tell no one else’: The Diaries of Anne Lister and Dorothy Wordsworth — Goddesses of the Kiln: How women shaped Athenian pottery — Anne Boleyn: A 16th Century Activist — Contrarianism, Courage, and Consistency: How Margaret Fell Drafted the Blueprints for Women’s Rights in the 17th Century and Beyond — ‘Pourquoi je ne suis pas feministe’: Rachilde and Georges de Peyrbrune — Authorising Motherhood: Mother’s Legacies in Early Modern England as Religious Polemic
2023-2024
Editor: Olivia Wrafter
The uneducated wife of Everest emerges from behind the mountain — Ada Lovelace: The First Computer Programmer — Sophie Germain: Breaking Barriers in Mathematics and Beyond — Kathleen Hanna, Riot Grrrl — Eileen Chang and Her Critical Feminism — Critiquing Slavery in Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko — Graceland and Gilded Cages: Sofia Coppola’s Feminine Framing of Priscilla Presley — Emily Wilson’s Iliad: Myth, Translation, and Gender in the Homeric Epics — ‘The Thing Itself’: Why We Should All Be Reading Clarice Lispector — Margaret Thatcher, Neoliberalism and Friedrich Hayek — Headline Warrior: The Provocative Art of Barbara Kruger — ‘A landmark in my memory’: Vernon Lee and il Palmerino — Mary Tudor, Fashion, and Influence: The Political Implications Inherent in Portrait of Queen Mary I — Mrs. Humphry Ward and the ‘Forward Policy’ — ‘Nostalgia for Now’: Pauline Boty, Pop Art’s Heroine — Bush Studies: Barbara Baynton’s Ghostly Legacy
2022-2023
Editor: Olivia Wrafter
Isabella Whitney’s Wyll and Testament as a Single-woman’s Survival Guide — Constance Gore-Booth, Countess de Markievicz: Art, Romance, and the Intersections of Freedom — As woman is, so she sees: winding the golden string of Dr Kathleen Raine’s William Blake scholarship — “Women’s Suffrage is Key” – Ichikawa Fusae and the Fight for Women’s Equality in Japan — Artemisia Gentileschi: ‘The Spirit of Caesar in the Soul of a Woman’
2020-2021
Editor: Olivia Wrafter
The Strangeness Within: Julia Kristeva and Cosmopolitanism — The Princess and the Pea: Princess Marie Bonaparte’s Search for a Vaginal Orgasm — Mavis Gallant, ‘The Ice Wagon Going Down the Street’ — Sketches of a Gaze: Céline Sciamma’s Watchful Cinema — “O, Portia! take my heart”: Ellen Terry and the Aesthetics of Costume — Mary Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft: A Sublime Lineage — Janelle Monàe and Lana Del Rey: The Feminist Potential of Vocal ‘Inauthenticity’
2016-17
Editor: Julyan Oldham
Alice Ball and the Fight against Leprosy — An Interview with Lalla Essaydi — A Conversation with Emily Temple-Wood — Louise Dupin: Bluestocking’s 18th Century Predecessor — Doris Salcedo’s Untitleds – – – An Interview with June Purvis: The Demonisation of the Suffragettes – – – Bluestocking Recommends… Best Films Directed by Women – – – Georgia O’Keeffe at the Tate Modern – – – A Conversation with Playwright Flo Read – – – Mamie Phipps Clark: Psychologist and Activist – – – Bluestocking Recommends… Podcasts by Women – – – A Conversation with Jane Robinson on Bluestockings
Editor: Alice Theobald
Counterpart Lives: Margaret Cavendish and Lady Anne Conway – — Elizabeth: The First Things to Remember — A Renaissance Flâneur: Isabella Whitney’s willed urban self — ‘Nature is the nurse of sentiment’: Mary Wollstonecraft’s Scandinavian Travelogue —Beatrice Webb: Progressive Politics and a Pragmatic Outlook on War — An Unwilling Empress: Sisi through the lens of her poetry and the portraits of Franz Xaver Winterhalter — Interview with Professor Martha Nussbaum — A Life Less Ordinary: Emmeline Pankhurst’s Fight for Equality — Madame de Staël – Literature, Society and “Woman” — Registering Desire: Spousal and Appetitive Imagery in the Religious and Devotional Poetry of Christina Rossetti
Editor: Claire Rodwell
Rachel Parsons (1885-1956): engineer and feminist campaigner
Editor: Georgia Mizen
Friendship in Emblem: Negotiating Gender and Sexuality in the Poetry of Katherine Philips — Gertrude Stein — Alice Vanderbilt Morris: Interlingua and the case for a global language — Making the Marginal the Pivotal: The importance of writing maritime history from a ‘gender perspective’ — The Persephone Book of Short Stories
Editor: Hannah Lee
The Role of Political Spouses: A Discussion — The art of Frauke Eigen and Jenny Stolzenberg — Finding an inner voice through outer expression in the music of Meredith Monk — Women and the Home Guard — Muriel Paget, gender and philanthropy in the interwar years — Late 18th century women travel writers and ‘philosophic geography’ — Elizabeth Nihell and the struggle to champion female midwifery — Henrietta Swan Leavitt — Beowulf and the women of Early Medieval Europe
Editor: Monika Kreile
Women in the Sciences: a short film — Scientific Women: Finding ‘a way in’ through the centuries — Recovering Lost Voices: An interview with Professor Jane Martin — Project Juno: Trudy Coe and Women in Physics — Rosetti’s Other Women — No Sex Please, We’re Hellenic: Female Solidarity in the Lysistrata — The Rise of Women’s Letter-Writing in the Eighteenth Century —Communities of Women in the Inter-War Oxford Novel
Editor: Mona Sakr
Breaking Up of the Bluestocking Club — Golden Notebook, Golden Ladies? — Minnie James and Images of the Woman Librarian — Education and Social Change in George Eliot’s Middlemarch — Laetitia Pilkington by Virginia Woolf
Editor: Leila Molana-Allen
Elinor Ostrom and Economic Governance — Kate Mosse: the Other Kate — Iris Murdoch’s Philosophy in Fiction — Mary Montagu — Saint Clare of Assisi: Living by the Rule — Women Historians and Female Kinship — ‘Someone in another time will remember us’ — Thomas Sprat, Margaret Cavendish and Aphra Behn — Diane von Furstenberg — Jane Goodall
Editor: Raffaella Tomassi
From the Editors of Issue 6 — The Foundation of Japan’s First Feminist Journal — Carol Ann Duffy: a chorus of female voices — MC Lyte has substance — Catherine de’Medici, Diane de Poitiers and the Creation of a Regal Iconography — Early Modern Europe: the forgotten world of the woman — Hedy Lamarr — The silent rebellion of Elizabeth Cary — Emmy Noether
Editor: Kate Bowden
Marriage and widowhood in later medieval England — Germaine Greer: feminist icon of the twentieth century? — How Mary Anning Struck Scientific Gold — Appraising and Reappraising the Aviator Hannah Reitsch — Anni Albers and Textile Art — Julian of Norwich — Intensity of Vision: A. S. Byatt’s The Shadow of the Sun — Where Loss Resides: the Poetry of Christina Rosetti — Naomi Weisstein
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin and the Crystallography Quest — Elizabeth Colson’s love affair with anthropology — A Homage to Grace Jones: Icon of Incoherence — Lee Miller — Georgia O’Keeffe and Virginia Woolf — A Buried Woman of Egyptology — The Second Sex — Irene Joliot-Curie: Pioneer of Atomic Science — Henrietta Swan Leavitt and the Harvard Computers
Editor: Rebecca Gregory
Bluestocking Recommends — From the Editors of Issue 3 — Bluestocking presents Elisabeth Gray — The Musical Lives of Fanny Hensel and Clara Schumann — Mary Fairfax Somerville: Queen of Nineteenth Century Science — Margaret Sanger — Lise Meitner: The Nucleus of Fission — Virginia Woolf and the Search for a Room of One’s Own — Heloise, Sin and Intention — Grace Hopper: Pioneer of Programming
Bluestocking Recommends — Bluestocking Interviews Bettany Hughes — Two Bronte Sisters and the Struggle Against Convention — Emilie Du Chatelet: The Multi-Tasking Marquise — Ingeborg Bachmann’s Malina — Dorothea Bate — Mary Magdalene — An Intimate Critique of Mina Loy’s Poem Der Blinde Junge — Trota di Ruggiero — Olympe de Gouges
Editor: Mona Sakr
Notes from the Founding Editors — Sulpicia Answers Back — The Spirituality of Saint Clare — Gabriele Munter: The Yellow House and Boating — Rosa Luxemburg and the Theory of Mass Strike — Hildegard of Bingen — Rosalind Franklin: Beyond the Helix — Morality and Art: The Fiction of Inescapability — Jocelyn Bell and the Lighthouses of the Sky
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