How To Use Bluestocking In A Sentence
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Donna has been a Gentianella I will not have her called a bluestocking for years; and she could tell you astonishing things!
June 2007
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More seriously, she argues that he was blackmailed into rejecting the comedy by a bluestocking who threatened to reveal that the great actor-manager's protege was his illegitimate son.
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Spinster and bluestocking, Niblock is also something of an outsider, an emancipated transgressor in polite Edwardian society, recalling the unsung role of the female intellectual, adventurer and agent in the birth of the modernist period; a mischievous subversion of the Victorian upper class male.
Archive 2008-12-01
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Both parties sign a contract setting out terms on which they insist, and men are presented with a variety of women from nymphomaniacs through bluestockings to homemakers.
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A Canadian bluestocking saw things a little differently.
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I think they took pity on Pink the instant they set eyes on her, and there's no doubt she's as much of a bluestocking as they'd wish for.
ON A WICKED DAWN
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'The bluestocking is the most odious character in society,' wrote Hazlitt.
Archive 2008-03-01
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It is possible to see good in our ability to refuse to be stereotyped, but in a way, that black-and-white innocent age, when women were either bimbos or bluestockings, was kinder.
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Are book editors letting the good ones get away and, in the process, limiting their audience to literary bluestockings?
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In English parlance (or at least the parlance of my university generation), my - and it sounds like your - core identity is a 'bluestocking' - female, bookish, determined to make up their own mind, not into power/material things in any competitive way (though we are often surprisingly domestic in selected areas, such as cake baking or crafting or homemaking, and we tend to amass books), fascinated by knowledge for its own sake and driven to find out more and to share what we find with others.
A New Chapter, Or a Different Story?
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Definitely sounds like gentianella is 'a dwarf gentian', by extension a purplish blue color, and so might apply to a derivative of a bluestocking in the female sense.
Sorry Her Lot Who Loves Too Well - A Dress A Day
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It was the common denominator of casual dress. (bas blu.com)Perhaps the good authress was trying to compliment her friend's fashion, and still reference her intellect. (a bluestocking - interested in science and learning AND female, but even more than than, a gentianella - more fashionable and beautiful than those darn casual but practical bluestockings) - kathy
Sorry Her Lot Who Loves Too Well - A Dress A Day
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She has suffered a little herself from being viewed by some as the archetypal bluestocking.
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She's suppose to be a tomboy and bluestocking with grass in her hair from reading outside,’ he teased, a grin lighting up his sun-bronzed face.
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Why, from what I know of her and what I have heard of Lady Josephine, she is quite a bluestocking!
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The roll-call of celebrated women expanded from the traditional saints, queens, Biblical heroines and aristocratic savantes to include middle-class bluestockings, actresses and other non-elite prodigies.
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The internet vitriol easily matched that of William Hazlitt two centuries ago, when he wrote: "The bluestocking is the most odious character in society ... she sinks wherever she is placed, like the yolk of an egg, to the bottom, and carries the filth with her.
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Mr. Benjamin Stillingfleet was the origin of the term bluestocking!
Proofreading Adventures
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Unfortunately Anthony usually chose college friends and Nigel didn't really take to bluestocking women.
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Well, if a Gentianella was called a bluestocking commonly, then insisting that the woman in question be named a Gentianella would be insisting that there is little (nothing?) common about her (and by extension, about being a female scientist?)
Sorry Her Lot Who Loves Too Well - A Dress A Day
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The portrait of ‘patriarchal oppression’ presented by the investigative journalist is nonsense, incidentally, and he - who has the perspective and temperament of a Victorian bluestocking - was laughed off the island.
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It is possible to see good in our ability to refuse to be stereotyped, but in a way, that black-and-white innocent age, when women were either bimbos or bluestockings, was kinder.
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Diary of a Bluestocking: dawn chorus now available to read in skookum boom skip to main
Dawn chorus now available to read in skookum boom
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At 20, Gertrude was ‘a snob, a bluestocking, a woman with attitude’, according to her biographer.
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She was a bluestocking, to whom German, mathematics, church history, and medicine were pure pleasure.
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Though, with her reputation as a bluestocking, the family puts its hopes in the younger now.
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The American debate contrasts favourably with the cavalier way such issues in Britain have been relegated to a quango and the whim of an elderly bluestocking baroness.
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Forgive the drive-by (I was following a breadcrumb from j_bluestocking's journal) -- but there may still be a script for Equivocation available through the Tudor Guild, released by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in conjunction with last year's production.
The Duchess of Malfi
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AJ, baby, you look up the word bluestocking in the Merriam-Webster and you'll find a picture of me.
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By the time of Montagu's death in 1800, any female intellectual might be labelled a bluestocking, whether or not she could claim a link to the original circle.
Archive 2008-03-01
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She is just trying to survive her first season in the haut ton of Regency England and retain the tomboy, bluestocking identity her brothers had fostered in her though out her childhood.
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As for her daughter, she was a bluestocking, one of only four of the class of 1958 debs who won a place at university.
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Even the liberal wing of the aristocracy took its tone from the salons of bluestockings.
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The bluestocking pair dispensed eccentricity and cheer.
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Some of these professors, self-proclaimed bluestockings, did disdain marriage.
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Among the several virtues she lacks - being a Calvinist bluestocking is plainly responsible - are objectivity, impersonality, and a sense of the comic finiteness of human beings.
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This room was used for entertaining on an intimate scale, for instance for her meetings with her bluestocking friend, but also served as a public room when opened up with the rest of the apartment.
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On the instant, she had turned from aggressive bluestocking to wistful orphan.
STAGE FRIGHT
