Bluestocking

"Bluestocking" probably sounded rather crass, whereas "Gentianella", if the flower is blue, plays on the idea but with the connotation that the woman to whom it is applied retains her feminine delicacy.

Sorry Her Lot Who Loves Too Well - A Dress A Day 2007

"Bluestocking" (very weirdly) ends with Alyx and Edarra finding some men, and the one that Alyx pairs off with may be the new husband we get a glimpse of at the end of "The Barbarian"; but of the nuts and bolts of Alyx in a relationship, this is our only sight.

Torque Control 2008

I've already mentioned the alternate mythology, and the narrator of "Bluestocking" clearly takes some fun in poking at conventional roles, such as the (I presume) heavily ironic comments that Alyx is "among the wisest of a sex that is surpassingly wise", and that women's "natural weapons" are "deceit, surprise and speed" (19).

Torque Control 2008

In an echo of the plot of "Bluestocking", she's recruited to escort a group of civilians, of varying degrees of uselessness, from A to B - quite literally, from station A to station B, in an example of Russ's dry humour.

Torque Control 2008

link I'm from the "Bluestocking" school of feminists of the 19th Century.

mikandra: I agree and I don't agree mikandra 2010

Bluestocking – de-icing planes sounds very serious – you are far more intrepid than me!

Ouch! « Tales from the Reading Room 2010

Bluestocking – do I take it you are keen on a little silence sometimes, too?

On Silence « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

Bluestocking – oh my heart really goes out to you.

What My Dark Side Did On Holiday « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

If I knew more about them I'd look for candidates for Modern Bluestocking.

Archive 2009-03-01 Mia 2009

If I knew more about them I'd look for candidates for Modern Bluestocking.

Sophie Germain, a tech heroine Mia 2009