0 an intelligent and well-educated woman who spends most of her time studying and is therefore not approved of by some men --
They referred to their circle as the bluestocking philosophers.
The word "bluestocking" today is used to mean any learned woman.
Its title refers to bluestockings, a derogatory term for female intellectuals.
His painting of the nine muses is used as emblematic of the emergence of bluestockings in the eighteenth century.
They were all clever, and well-read, without a tinge of the bluestocking, and most of them were musical to the tips of their slender fingers.
There are frequent bluestockings, it is true, but they have no influence with the public, and are showing themselves entirely ineffectual in forcing public opinion in this regard.
That, we fancy, is why we would rather read him on Catherine Trotter, the precursor of the bluestockings, than on any subject connected with the war.
