On Bluestockings and Beauty: 19th Century Advice for Educated

The Victorian bluestocking was considered to be, as one 1876 publication puts it, “a stiff, stilted, queer literary woman of a dubious age.”

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Queen Victoria, c.1856

Victorian Bluestockings

Portrait of Marianne Ashley Walker, by Gilbert Stuart Portrait painting, Classic art, Oil painting reproductions

Bluestocking Blues, London Evening Standard

The Blue Stockings Society – warm days will never cease

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Robert F. Kennedy, California hope, L.A. despair

On Bluestockings and Beauty: 19th Century Advice for Educated Women

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