Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
Blue-stocking Hall
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Rare Books
480430
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Manuscripts
Manuscript copy including dramatis personae. The main character Sir Charles Canvas is a Member of Parliament who has cheated his elder brother out of his inheritance.
mssLA 1688
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Visual Materials
A watercolor and ink drawing satirizing a Blue Stockings Club meeting turned violent with five pairs of women fighting while dressed in blue stockings and torn attire. The scene depicts women attacking each other with scalding water, a brass trivet, and pulling each other's hair while raising their fists. The women wrestling in the foreground are illustrated with exaggerated facial features and are partially nude as their garments and hair are disheveled during their fight. Details include three frightened cats leaping in reaction to the brawl while surrounded by falling furniture, spilling tea sets, and overturned chamber pots. Two bottles of alcohol are illustrated spilling on the floor, one is labeled "French Cream" and the other "Ratafia." In March 1815, the watercolor drawing was slightly altered and printed by publisher Thomas Tegg as hand-colored etchings titled Breaking up of the Blue Stocking Club.
priPEF 31
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Visual Materials
Image of two cartoon blue birds on tree branches with buds.
ephJLC_CIT_000922