Elizabeth Vesey

Elizabeth Vesey
Unknown artist. Elizabeth Vesey, circa 1755–65. National Portrait Gallery, London
Born1715 (1715)
Ossory, Ireland
Died1791 (aged 75–76)
London, England

Elizabeth Vesey (1715 in Ossory, Ireland – 1791 in Chelsea, London) was a wealthy Irish intellectual who is credited with fostering the Blue Stockings Society, a society which hosted informal literary and political discussions of which she was an important member.

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