Noun

(en noun)

A scholarly, literary, or cultured woman.

*{{quote-book, year=1896, title=The great didactic of John Amos Comenius

, author=Maurice Walter Keatinge (tr.), original=Didactica Magna, by=(John Amos Comenius) , location=London, publisher=Adam and Charles Black , passage=And let none cast in my teeth

*

*:“Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are'' pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling ''à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better.”

*{{quote-book, year=2001, first=Louise Anderson, last=Allen, location=Columbia

, publisher=University of South Carolina Press, isbn=9781570033704, ol=8695302M , title= A Bluestocking in Charleston: The Life and Career of Laura Bragg , passage=Bragg was a Massachusetts-born bluestocking , a New Woman of the Progressive Era who changed not only the cultural face of Charleston but also the nation's approach to museum education.}}

*{{quote-news, date=2003-10-05, first=Brooke, last=Allan, newspaper=The New York Times

, issn=0362-4331, title= The Surveyor of Customs , passage = The artist who created strong, passionate, brilliant heroines turns out to have disapproved of bluestockings and refused to educate his own intelligent daughters.}}

Noun

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(colloquial) The character or manner of a bluestocking; female pedantry.

(Webster 1913)