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BLUESTOCKING

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 91 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BLA-BOS
BLUESTOCKING , a derisive name for a literary woman. The
term
  originated in or about 1750, when Mrs Elizabeth Montagu (q.v.) made a determined effort to introduce into society a healthier and more intellectual
tone
 , by holding assemblies at which literary conversation and discussions were to take the place of cards and gossip. Most of those attending were conspicuous by the plainness of their dress, and a Mr Benjamin Stillingfleet specially caused comment by always wearing blue or worsted stockings instead of the usual black
silk
 . It was in
special
  reference to him that Mrs Montagu's friends were called the Bluestocking Society or Club, and the women frequenting her
house
  in Hill
Street
  came to be known as the " Bluestocking Ladies " or simply " bluestockings." As an alternative explanation, the origin of the name is attributed to Mrs Montagu's deliberate adoption of blue stockings (in which fashion she was followed by all her women friends) as the badge of the society she wished to form. She is said to have obtained the
idea
  from Paris, where in the 17th
century
  there was a revival of a social reunion in 1590 on the lines of that formed in 1400 at Venice, the ladies and men of which wore blue stockings. The
term
  had been applied in England as early as 1653 to the Little
Parliament
 , in allusion to the puritanically plain and coarse dress of the members.


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