Elizabeth Eger

Elizabeth Selina Eger (born 1971) is a reader in the Department of English at King's College London.

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

Elizabeth Eger was born in the Hammersmith district of London in 1971[1] to John Cedric Eger, a Swiss national who became a naturalised British citizen in 1976,[2] and Selina Mary Dix Hamilton.

Eger was educated at James Allen's Girls' School and King's College, University of Cambridge.

[3] 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 wrote the accompanying book.

The cover of Bluestockings displayed: Portraiture, performance and patronage, 1730-1830 , Cambridge University Press, 2013. Edited by Elizabeth Eger and showing Elizabeth Carter as depicted by John Fayram , c. 1735-41.