bluestocking

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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

Violet is very much an intellectual construct: an ardent bluestocking who cuts against the grain by opposing the impulse to be different.

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2012

Skeeter is a bluestocking, having developed liberal notions and journalistic aspirations at college that put her at odds with her old friends Hilly and Elizabeth.

From Time • Aug. 10, 2011

Oh, this sort of strange deference to her father, a bluestocking intellectual who is very repressed and clearly emotionally tortured.

From The Guardian • Jun. 11, 2010

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