bluestocking
Example Sentences
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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
There’s the confirmed rake, the bluestocking spinster, the runaway bride, the runaway dog.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2018
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
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
