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- Dictionarybluestocking/ˈbluːˌstɒkɪŋ/
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- 1. an intellectual or literary woman: derogatory "a Victorian bluestocking"
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Bluestocking is a term for an educated, intellectual woman, originally a member of the 18th-century Blue Stockings Society from England led by the hostess and critic Elizabeth Montagu, the "Queen of the Blues", including Elizabeth Vesey, Hester Chapone and the classicist Elizabeth Carter. In the following generation came Hester Lynch Piozzi (1741–1821), Hannah More (1745–1833) and Frances Burney (... Wikipedia