Word: bluestockingism
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Emerson's best letters were written to his family on his lecture tours. They considerably spoil the conventional picture of New England's Transcendentalist-in-chief as shy, frail and retiring. Because Emerson was surrounded by people like volcanic bluestocking Margaret Fuller, semi-insane Greek Scholar Jones Very...
Nathaniel Hawthorne and his bluestocking wife had three children, Una, Julian and Rose. Una became an Angelican nun and died in England at 35. Julian became his father's biographer, wrote some 50 volumes, died in 1934 in San Francisco, Calif, at the age of 88. Rose turned Catholic...
The word bluestocking, coined in 1790, is defined as "a woman with literary tastes or pretensions." As to bloomer (originally the name of a costume consisting of a short skirt and loose trousers gathered around the ankles, later becoming bloomers-), the dictionary says that Mrs. Amelia Bloomer gave it its...
Adding the physical to the metaphysical in its philosophy of life, Harvard steps out ahead again with the announced future establishment of a dating bureau, which will for a nominal sum furnish intellectual pabulum for the undergraduates, said pabulum to be called from the various bluestocking institutions of the immediate...
If she had been that kind, Mary Heaton might have grown up to be a New England bluestocking. Reared in the academic society of Amherst, Mass., where Henry James went visiting his young cousins and Emily Dickinson was one of the town characters, she found the life pleasantly stimulating, graduated...