The Victorian bluestocking was considered to be, as one 1876 publication puts it, “a stiff, stilted, queer literary woman of a dubious age.”
The Project Gutenberg eBook of Main Currents in Nineteen Century Literature - 4. Naturalism in England, by Georg Brandes.
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The Blue-Stockings – Jane Austen in Vermont
Bluestocking Blues, London Evening Standard
Queen of the Blues: Elizabeth Montagu's Bluestockings
Friday essay: how 19th century ideas influenced today's attitudes to women's beauty
19th Century Beauty Orders
19th Century Beauty Orders
Historical Considerations of Women and Gender in Higher Education
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