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Miss Hannah More has admirably described a Blue-stocking Club, in her Bas Bleu, a poem in which many of the persons who were most conspicuous there are mentioned.
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These societies were denominated Blue-stocking Clubs, the origin of which title being little known, it may be worth while to relate it.
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Blue-stocking, a pattern to the whole country around for the good he does to everyone, and especially for his extraordinary activity, appearing as if he could do twenty things at once.
The Junior Classics — Volume 6 Old-Fashioned Tales William Patten 1902
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These societies were denominated Blue-stocking Clubs, the origin of which title being little known, it may be worth while to relate it.
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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Blue-stocking Club, in her Bas Bleu [348], a poem in which many of the persons who were most conspicuous there are mentioned.
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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Ethereal Being of the last generation -- the Blue-stocking, as a poetess in white satin, with her eyes turned up to heaven, and her hair in dishevelled cascades about her neck.
Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) Lucia Gilbert [Commentator] Calhoun 1860
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That language has become a very fashionable accomplishment amongst literary ladies; and Misa Dundas, being a member of the Blue-stocking
Thaddeus of Warsaw Jane Porter 1813
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Miss Hannah More has admirably described a Blue-stocking Club, in her Bas Bleu, a poem in which many of the persons who were most conspicuous there are mentioned.
Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood James Boswell 1767
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These societies were denominated Blue-stocking Clubs, the origin of which title being little known, it may be worth while to relate it.
Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood James Boswell 1767
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Earl of Sandwich, and founder of the Blue-stocking Club.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2 Horace Walpole 1757
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