A Speedy and Effectual Preparation for the Next World
Macaulay Supported the American Revolution
thus the feathered Amerindian hairstyle
Satire of French cosmetics on table, thus
Bluestockings are really only superficial
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Insofar as the major Bluestocking, Mary Wollstonecraft supported the
Jacobins of the French Revolution, the leaders of the English government:
William Pitt (the younger), Edmund Burke, etc. opposed most of the Bluestockings.
The highly conservative leaders of the English government supported the
majority view of males that feared women as qualified as men (or more
qualified) would undermine male privilege. These men also feared women
gaining economic independence. Hence the leaders of the English government
attacked (with due respect to chivalry) by simply using ridicule and satire.
"I think one never heard of any body, above the degree of an
idiot, who took pleasure in being so dressed out with the very
rags and ribbons of vanity."
In any case, Catherine Macaulay broke the stereotype of women
in that she wrote the five-volume "The History of England from
the accession of James I. to that of the Brunswick line".
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