Elizabeth Selina Eger (born 1971) is a reader in the Department of English at King's College London. She is a specialist in women's writing of the eighteenth century, the concept of luxury, and the lives of "

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" women. She initiated and co-curated the exhibition ''Brilliant Women: 18th-Century Bluestockings'' which was held at the National Portrait Gallery, London, in 2008.

Early life

Elizabeth Eger was born in the

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district of London in 1971 to John Cedric Eger, a Swiss national who became a naturalised British citizen in 1976, and Selina Mary Dix Hamilton. She has a sister Helen born in 1973. Eger was educated at

James Allen's Girls' School James Allen's Girls' School, abbreviated JAGS, is an independent day school situated in Dulwich, South London, England. It is the second oldest girls’ independent school in Great Britain - Godolphin School in Salisbury being the oldest, founde ...

and

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Career

Eger completed her PhD at King's College Cambridge, and had research fellowships at the

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, working on "The Luxury Project", and at the

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. She is currently a reader in English at King's College London. Her research interests include women's writing of the eighteenth century, the concept of luxury and the lives of "Bluestocking" women. She initiated and co-curated the exhibition ''Brilliant Women: 18th-Century Bluestockings'' which was held at the National Portrait Gallery, London, in 2008 and with

Lucy Peltz Dr. Lucy Peltz is Head of Collection Displays (Tudor to Regency) and Senior Curator 18th Century Collections at the National Portrait Gallery, London. Peltz studied History of Art and French at Sussex University, followed by an MA in the Histor ...

wrote the accompanying book. In 2014, she appeared on BBC Radio 4's ''

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'' to discuss the Bluestockings.The Bluestockings.
BBC Radio 4 ''In Our Time'', 2014. Retrieved 29 February 2016.

Personal life

Eger is married with two children.

Selected publications

*''Women, writing and the public sphere, 1700-1830''. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2001. (Joint editor) *''Luxury in the eighteenth-century: Debates, desires and delectable goods''. Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. (Edited with

Maxine Berg Maxine Louise Berg, (born 22 February 1950) is a British historian and academic. Since 1998, she has been Professor of History at the University of Warwick. She has taught at Warwick since 1978, joining the Department of Economics, before transf ...

) *''Brilliant women: 18th-Century bluestockings''.

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, New Haven, 2008. (With Lucy Peltz) *''Bluestockings: Women of reason from Enlightenment to Romanticism''.

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, 2010. *''Bluestockings displayed: Portraiture, performance and patronage, 1730-1830''.

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, Cambridge, 2013. (Editor)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Eger, Elizabeth Living people Historians of English literature Academics of King's College London 1971 births People from the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham People educated at James Allen's Girls' School Alumni of King's College, Cambridge