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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
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blue-stocking attrib. wearing blue stockings XVII; applied from
c.1780 to the intellectuals who met in London at the houses of Mrs. Montague and others, where blue worsted stockings were worn by some instead of black silk.
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Nicole Pohl and Betty A. Schellenberg, eds., Reconsidering the Bluestockings.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Labour/Le Travail; 9/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...individual Bluestocking or on a relationship...two or three Bluestockings but devote...to how the Bluestocking Circle operated...Provincial Bluestocking" reinforces...Englishness of the Bluestockings by defining...
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Brilliant Women: 18th-Century Bluestockings.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Australian Journal of Politics and History; 3/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...the so-called "bluestockings". Rich, detailed...the emergence of the Bluestocking Circle in the mid...reasserted, the term "bluestocking" "acquired its more...127). Although the bluestocking legacy continued...century. The early bluestockings may have challenged...
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Bluestocking blues ; EXHIBITION OF THE WEEKJust as Women's Studies are discontinued as a discipline in British universities the National Portrait Gallery reminds us of the intellectual aspirations of ladies of an earlier age
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London; 4/4/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Brilliant Women: 18th-Century Bluestockings National Portrait Gallery...man needs to know about Bluestockings is to be found in the Oxford...that in the 19th century, Bluestocking was a dismissive term for...exhibition devoted to the Bluestockings of the 18th century. Its...
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Bluestockings Beware: Cultural Backlash and the Reconfiguration of the Witch in Popular Nineteenth-Century Literature
Magazine article from: Femspec; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...mildly opprobrious epithet "bluestocking" has also been applied? How...group of stories I read in which bluestockings, i.e., educated women...of its membership"(14). Bluestocking as a label functions in much...
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Bluestocking in Patagonia.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Australian Literary Studies; 10/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; Bluestocking in Patagonia, by Anne Whitehead...young Mary Gilmore, to follow him? In Bluestocking in Patagonia Whitehead presents, in...culture besieging her from every side. Bluestocking in Patagonia is a very beautiful book...
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Clever girls; 18th-century intellectuals.(Brilliant Women: 18th-Century Bluestockings)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 3/22/2008; 700+ words
; ...exhibition about bluestockings puts brilliant women...THINK of the word "bluestocking" and you are likely...etching of fighting bluestockings, there hangs an...18th-Century Bluestockings" is at the National...
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Culture Minister defers export of the archive of Mary Hamilton (1756 - 1816), courtier, diarist and bluestocking.
M2 Presswire; 11/13/2006; 700+ words
; ...1816), courtier, diarist and bluestocking(C)1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS...circle of friends included the bluestockings Elizabeth Carter, Elizabeth...events, from the court to the bluestocking gatherings, with conversation...
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COLLEGE GIRLS: BLUESTOCKINGS, SEX KITTENS AND CO-EDS, THEN AND NOW
Magazine article from: Herizons; 7/1/2007; ; 551 words
; COLLEGE GIRLS: BLUESTOCKINGS, SEX KITTENS AND CO-EDS, THEN AND NOW LYNN PERIL W.W...textbook for this course will be Lynn Peril's College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens and Co-eds, Then and Now, an exhaustive, entertaining...
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'The Queen of the Bluestockings': Mrs Montagu's house at 23 Hill Street rediscovered.
Magazine article from: Apollo; 8/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...a leading member of what Admiral Boscawen called 'The Bluestocking Circle' was a celebrated London hostess, described by Dr...an intimate scale, for instance for her meetings with her bluestocking friend, the reclusive Elizabeth Carter, (9) but also...
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Learned and ingenious ladies; British bluestockings.(Bluestockings: The Remarkable Story of the First Women to Fight for an Education)(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 8/8/2009; 700+ words
; ...friendships, evenings spent drinking cocoa and setting the world to rights--and, above all, the joy of learning for its own sake. Bluestockings: The Remarkable Story of the First Women to Fight for an Education. By Jane Robinson.
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bluestocking
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
bluestocking derisive term originally applied to...Dr. Johnson, states that these "bluestocking clubs" were so named because of Benjamin...black silk stockings. In time the name bluestocking was applied solely to women of pedantic...
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Chapone, Hester
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...the Bishop of Winchester. Befit as a Bluestocking Chapone never let her tenuous personal...female minds known as the “ bluestockings ” along with linguist Elizabeth...History's Carol Brennan described the Bluestocking Circle as “ one of London...
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Elizabeth Carter
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...of the group of 18th-century women known as the bluestockings, she was a friend of Johnson, Burke, Reynolds...1807); study by A. C. C. Gaussen (1906); Bluestocking Letters (ed. by R. B. Johnson, 1926).
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Elizabeth (Robinson) Montagu
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Elizabeth (Robinson) Montagu 1720-1800, English author, one of the bluestockings . She was noted for her wit and beauty, and her London literary salon was frequented by Johnson, Walpole, Burke, and other...
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Davy, Humphary
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...belief in a Supreme Being but does not seem to have been a zealous member of any church. In 1812 he married a wealthy bluestocking widow, Jane Apreece, but the marriage was childless and not happy. In the same year he was knighted and in 1818 was made...
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