bluestocking

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As much as the series is Mary’s bluestocking origin story, it also spells her freedom, which comes from no longer trying to impress or contort herself to fit the expectations of others.

From Salon • Jun. 25, 2026

Although she’s not given much to do, the astringent Anne Gee Byrd lends Marya, Vanya’s bluestocking mother, a feisty, antagonistic presence.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2022

Among such friends were the bluestocking Elizabeth Carter and the novelist Fanny Burney.

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2019

We consumed it under covers with a flashlight, much as Margaret Mitchell read the romance novels her bluestocking mother deplored.

From Time • Dec. 15, 2014

My grandfather, Sam’l Hamilton, loved good writing, and he knew it too, and he had some bluestocking daughters, among them my mother.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck