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

There’s the confirmed rake, the bluestocking spinster, the runaway bride, the runaway dog.

From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2018

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

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