A woman having literary or intellectual interests.
1 Oh, why did I have to have a bluestocking for a sister?
2 It is about a bluestocking who discovers her mother is a scarlet woman.
3 Yes, well, no need to overset me with bluestocking explanations and Royal Society papers.
4 Madame Lefoux paid attention with the interest of a bluestocking .
5 A group of young men, normally intimidated by the bluestocking 's erudition, found this comment hilarious.
6 You're supposed to be a bluestocking , didn't she say?
7 Guess what, Molly-I'mgoing to make you a bluestocking .
8 Alexia was becoming horribly afraid that her bluestocking tendencies had transferred to her daughter, in spades.
9 He was afraid I would become a bluestocking and lose my charm and spoil my looks.
10 Her grandmother is a European of her time & her class-Socialist, bluestocking , agnostic, and a snob.
11 No conventional bluestocking ... Mary Wollstonecraft in a drawing by A S Merrit after John Opie's painting.
12 Don't marry a Jewess or a bluestocking or a woman who is queer in any way.
13 Nothing of the bluestocking about her, though.
14 It said in the papers that she was a bluestocking , arranged courses in self-defense, that sort of thing.
15 However, Mary was no conventional bluestocking .
16 My Mother was his special favourite, and his vanity did its best to make a bluestocking of her.
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