Noun : Lady Montagu was a celebrated bluestocking. From Dictionary.com.
Mr. Benjamin Stillingfleet was the origin of the term bluestocking!. From Wordnik.com. [Proofreading Adventures] Reference
AJ, baby, you look up the word bluestocking in the Merriam-Webster and you'll find a picture of me. From Wordnik.com. [Reference
'The bluestocking is the most odious character in society,' wrote Hazlitt. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference
Sad to say, bluestocking is correct at 107. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Limbaugh vows to flee the country if health care passes.] Reference
On a totally different topic, is the word "bluestocking". From Wordnik.com. [Good news!] Reference
"My governess was rather a bluestocking," she explained. From Wordnik.com. [The English Witch]
She dreaded more than anything the label of bluestocking. From Wordnik.com. [An Unacceptable Offer]
Would it make you unhappy if I really was a bluestocking?. From Wordnik.com. [The Lion's Lady]
Diary of a bluestocking: in defence of the bluestocking. From Wordnik.com. [in defence of the bluestocking...] Reference
"You must take care that you are not labeled as a bluestocking.". From Wordnik.com. [The Gates Of Sleep]
You were just a bluestocking intellectual if you went to college. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Virginia Foster Durr, March 13, 14, 15, 1975. Interview G-0023-1. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
Yes, behold me in love with this great horse-faced bluestocking '. From Wordnik.com. [Henry James] Reference
"That's right, she said you were a, whatchamacallit, bluestocking.". From Wordnik.com. [Locked Rooms]
What's a Gentianella, that it would be contrasted with bluestocking?. From Wordnik.com. [Sorry Her Lot Who Loves Too Well - A Dress A Day] Reference
She's a dreadful bluestocking, and she never even comes home on the vacs. From Wordnik.com. [Phoenix And Ashes]
I'm very heavily a bluestocking as well, and I just love a good manifesto. From Wordnik.com. [the manchester modernist society is born!] Reference
Open Objects: Introducing modern bluestocking skip to main | skip to sidebar. From Wordnik.com. [Introducing modern bluestocking] Reference
"Mrs. Huntington, you may be a good bluestocking, but you are a bad actress.". From Wordnik.com. [Soul] Reference
And you make Victoria McClellan sound like some sort of unwashed bluestocking. From Wordnik.com. [Dreaming of the Bones] Reference
She was a very bright, lively, intelligent young woman, a kind of bluestocking. From Wordnik.com. [Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.] Reference
After all, I, too, am a bit of a bluestocking even if my socks are purple today. From Wordnik.com. [Sorry Her Lot Who Loves Too Well - A Dress A Day] Reference
So perhaps she's making a joke about bluestocking flower meaning/popular meaning. From Wordnik.com. [Sorry Her Lot Who Loves Too Well - A Dress A Day] Reference
"Who would not be a bluestocking at this rate?" wrote Burney in her diary in 1780. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference
EP Niblock, diarist, bluestocking and modernist, defender of the brutalist aesthetic!. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference
Bingham, bluestocking leftie, was the son of Hiram Bingham, explorer of Macchu Picchu. From Wordnik.com. [Is That Legal?: The "Hindsight" Theory of the Japanese American Internment Takes (Yet) Another Hit.] Reference
I genuinely do not get the third-wave bluestocking professional feminists in this country. From Wordnik.com. [Belle de Jour, aka Brooke Magnanti, stands up to her feminist critics] Reference
You are a highly intelligent and witty bluestocking, whose beauty is hidden behind spectacles. From Wordnik.com. [color quiz!] Reference
She also hung out in bluestocking groups and spoke her mind and didn't care who that bothered. From Wordnik.com. [Tart of the Week: Mary Eleanor Bowes] Reference
He was too busy imagining what it would be like to have a beautiful bluestocking as his hostess. From Wordnik.com. [The English Witch]
"She says it is because I will turn into a bluestocking and a bore," Marina replied with relish. From Wordnik.com. [The Gates Of Sleep]
"What I'm thinking is we ought to look up this bluestocking abolitionist Peggy and make her acquaintance.". From Wordnik.com. [Heartfire]
"Belle Gunness was the ogress of Indiana," said Ms. Robbins by phone from bluestocking-filled San Francisco. From Wordnik.com. [Eight Day Week] Reference
The puzzle is how she was able to address such a wide range of issues without being attacked as a bluestocking. From Wordnik.com. [Contesting the Heterodoxy: Mrs. Hemans vs. Lord Byron] Reference
Get yourself a brainyish daughter, who is a bluestocking and consequently has a twin tower of books near her bed. From Wordnik.com. [Reference
Grandma was as close to an intellectual, or a bluestocking, as you were likely to find in the Swift River Valley. From Wordnik.com. [Stillwater] Reference
“No, now that she has become a bluestocking she has finally renounced her former infatuations,” he told himself. From Wordnik.com. [War and Peace] Reference
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