blue-stocking

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"Behold me literally in love with this great horse-faced blue-stocking," Henry James wrote to his father.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was never lipstick to contrast with her straight black hair, while at the age of thirty-one her dresses showed all the imagination of English blue-stocking adolescents.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

She wanted to be broad-minded if she could, for she was rather a blue-stocking.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

There was the blue-stocking lady, a mature belle and bel-esprit.

From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Fuller, Margaret

Do�a Clorinda was quarreling with Alicia, and the blue-stocking for whom the Professor felt such enthusiasm was the companion and prot�g�e of the Duchess.

From The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) by Blasco Ib??ez, Vicente