A critical edition of the Collected Letters by Sarah Scott (1723-95).

萨拉·罗宾逊·斯科特（1723-95）的文学作品和生活直到最近才成为学术研究的对象。这位作家现在被誉为十八世纪最有趣、最有远见的作家之一。她的小说《千年大厅的描述》（1762年）和《乔治·埃里森爵士的历史》（1766年）由于最近的现代版本，成为标准学术课程的一部分。虽然斯科特并不是伦敦、巴斯和都柏林著名的蓝袜沙龙的活跃成员，但她的文学作品对基于平等主义社交、对话和公民美德进步原则的“蓝袜女权主义”做出了重大贡献。虽然主要的蓝袜成员，如斯科特的妹妹伊丽莎白蒙塔古，伊丽莎白卡特和凯瑟琳塔尔博特的信件和著作已全面出版，斯科特的信件只占这些出版物的一小部分。因此，她的通信版本是至关重要的十八世纪文学和社会历史的学生和学者的理解。我在这项工作中主要关注的是历史和技术问题。该版本将提供一个深入了解莎拉罗宾逊斯科特的个人生活和艺术生涯。除了她自己的家庭，最突出的是伊丽莎白蒙塔古，斯科特的信件是由许多有影响力的作家，学者和政治家，如伊丽莎白卡特，弗朗西斯博斯卡文，汉娜更多，Lyttleton勋爵，巴斯伯爵，霍勒斯沃波尔，奥福德伯爵和查尔斯伯尼，传达了当代英国上流社会的详细意义。最后，司各特的信件证明了作家、政治家和改革家的省级网络的重要性，但迄今为止一直被忽视。一个广泛的设备，以关键版将提供解释性说明，把这个历史和传记背景下的信件。因此，这些信件将拓宽我们对蓝袜子对18世纪文化和社会的干预的理解。

The literary work and life of Sarah Robinson Scott (1723-95) has only recently become the object of academic research. The writer is now praised as one of the most interesting and visionary writers of the eighteenth century. Her novels, A Description of Millenium Hall (1762) and The History of Sir George Ellison (1766) are, thanks to recent modern editions, part of the standard academic curriculum. Although Scott was not an active member of the famous Bluestocking salons in London, Bath and Dublin, her literary oeuvre contributed substantially to a 'Bluestocking feminism' that was based on principles of egalitarian sociability, conversation and the advancement of civic virtue. Whilst the correspondence and writings of the main Bluestocking members such as Scott's sister Elizabeth Montagu, Elizabeth Carter and Catherine Talbot have been published comprehensively, Scott's letters comprise only a very small part of these publications. An edition of her correspondence is therefore vital to the understanding of eighteenth-century literary and social history for both students and scholars. My main concerns in this undertaking are both historical and technical. The edition will provide an insight into Sarah Robinson Scott's personal life and artistic career. Aside from her own family, most prominently Elizabeth Montagu, Scott's correspondence is populated by numerous influential writers, scholars and politicians such as Elizabeth Carter, Frances Boscawen, Hannah More, Lord Lyttleton, the Earl of Bath, Horace Walpole, the Earl of Orford and Charles Burney, conveying a detailed sense of contemporary English polite society. Finally, Scott's correspondence attests to important, but hitherto neglected, provincial networks of writers, politicians and reformers. An extensive apparatus to the critical edition will provide explanatory notes to place the letters within this historical and biographical context. The correspondence therefore will widen our understanding of the Bluestockings's intervention in eighteenth-century culture and society.