blue-stockings

They are generally called blue-stockings, are described as slatternly in their dress and always as having their fingertips dabbled with ink.

The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

They are generally called blue-stockings, are described as slatternly in their dress and always as having their fingertips dabbled with ink.

The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

Elizabeth Montagu (1720-1800) founded an intellectual and social group that conducted regular meetings and events, later called the "blue-stockings"; its members included Elizabeth

Editorial Notes to 'Letter to the Women of England' 2007

There were little manuals in questions and answers, pamphlets of aggressive tone after the manner of Monsieur de Maistre, and certain novels in rose-coloured bindings and with a honied style, manufactured by troubadour seminarists or penitent blue-stockings.

Madame Bovary 2003

Numerous dreamy blue-stockings who write poetry for the press.

At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

Numerous dreamy blue-stockings who write poetry for the press.

At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

They took a large house in Hill street, then the extremity of the West End, which became the resort of that class who, being anxious to put an end to eternal card-playing and introduce rather more of the intellectual into social intercourse, received from a chance circumstance the name of "blue-stockings."

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873 Various

The Boston ladies are perhaps better informed, and their features are usually more regular; but they have something Yankeeish about them, which I could never fancy, and, moreover, they are dreadful blue-stockings.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 Various

They do not want to be called blue-stockings even by young men they despise.

Girls and Women Harriet E. (AKA E. Chester} Paine

Francis Bacon, familiarly known as Lord Bacon, though in fact he never enjoyed that honor, his titles being Baron Verulam and Viscount St. Alban's, was second son of his father's second marriage, his mother being one of three sisters, the most eminent blue-stockings of the period, daughters of Sir Anthony Cooke, of Gidea Hall, Essex.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 Various