Word: bluestockingism
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The wowser is human. The Australian slang dictionary defines him (or her) as "a puritanical enthusiast, a bluestocking, a drab-souled Philistine haunted by the mockery of others." What the U.S. soldiers and their Empire mates have to say about him would burn holes in a postman's sack...
Margaret Fuller Ossoli was the Original American Bluestocking. She tried to model herself on Goethe; she taught Emerson the necessity of joining action with thought and the correct pronunciation of German (he remembered the latter); she edited The Dial, the house organ of Transcendentalism; she was outtalked at last by...
> Ann Yearsley, "the Poetical Milk-Woman of Bristol," who succeeded the "Poetic Washerwoman of Peterfield." While collecting slops for her pigs from the kitchen of a bluestocking, Ann one day let slip that she wrote. The Blue-stocking Club rechristened her "Lactilla." No lady, Lactilla too had to be dropped...
For many another writer this tale might be worth perhaps 50 of the 453 pages devoted to it-a prettily sentimental, rather chokingly over-literary, long short story. But of course it is by no means all. The first six chapters, which are perhaps the most inactive and certainly the...
> Mannish bluestocking Madame de Stael, trying to fascinate Napoleon (she had offered to be his mistress): "General, what woman do you like the best?" Napoleon: "The one I have."