(1) 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.(2) At 20, Gertrude was ‘a snob, a bluestocking , a woman with attitude’, according to her biographer.(3) 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.(4) As for her daughter, she was a bluestocking , one of only four of the class of 1958 debs who won a place at university.(5) 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.(6) A Canadian bluestocking saw things a little differently.(7) I got an A-plus. I was a bluestocking(8) an uptight bluestocking who likes to dress as a man and write feminist philosophy(9) 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.(10) bluestocking women(11) She was a bluestocking , to whom German, mathematics, church history, and medicine were pure pleasure.(12) 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.(13) 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.(14) Though, with her reputation as a bluestocking , the family puts its hopes in the younger now.(15) She has suffered a little herself from being viewed by some as the archetypal bluestocking .(16) Why, from what I know of her and what I have heard of Lady Josephine, she is quite a bluestocking !
