![]() ![]() The term later developed negative implications, and in some instances such women were stereotyped as being "frumpy". It subsequently was applied primarily to intellectual women, and the French equivalent bas bleu had a similar connotation. ![]() Until the late 18th century, the term had referred to learned people of both sexes. Nose in a book, messy hair, glasses, endless questions, thinking thoughts that aren't allowed? Wonderful!Ī bluestocking is an educated, intellectual woman, more specifically a member of the 18th-century Blue Stockings Society led by the hostess and critic Elizabeth Montagu (1720–1800), the "Queen of the Blues", and including Elizabeth Vesey(1715–91), Hester Chapone (1727–1801), and the classicist Elizabeth Carter (1717–1806). I like my heroines to have intellectual curosity so the Bluestocking Heroine is a favorite of mine. ![]()
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