单词 | bluestocking assembly |
释义 | > as lemmasbluestocking assembly a. Of, belonging, or relating to a series of assemblies or salons held c1750 by a group of London society ladies, notable for the informal dress worn by the male attendees and for the intellectual conversation engaged in by women and men equally; as bluestocking assembly, bluestocking circle, bluestocking club, bluestocking coterie, bluestocking party, etc. Now historical.The term blue stocking was originally a non-pejorative nickname, but was later used to connote the excessively feminine literariness or intellectualism seen as characterizing these gatherings. See further discussion in etymology section. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > social gathering > [adjective] > symposium symposiac1642 symposiastic1669 symposial1775 bluestocking?1783 sympotical1825 symposiacal1826 sympotic1972 1757 E. Montagu Let. Mar. in J. Doran Lady of Last Cent. (1873) 270 He [sc. Mr. Stillingfleet] has left off his old friends and his blue stockings.] ?1783 C. A. Burney Jrnl. 5 Feb. in F. Burney Early Diary (1889) II. 309 He said that a lady that read Livy, ask'd him to give [her] a succinct account of the new opera. We were speaking of the blue stocking Club. 1785 J. Boswell Jrnl. Tour Hebrides 25 I had seen, at a Blue-stocking assembly, a number of ladies sitting round a worthy and tall friend of ours, listening to his literature. 1796 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 633/2 I know the word dear to be a sort of blue-stocking epithet, applied without much discrimination. 1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 4 He..has been repeatedly teased to exhibit himself at blue stocking parties, for no other reason than that of being ‘the gentleman who has had a glimpse of the author of Waverly’. 1885 F. Cuss E. Barnet 113 A member of the..Blue Stocking coterie. 1900 M. E. Braddon Infidel ix. 149 Well, we shall meet in town next winter, perhaps, if you do not join the blue-stocking circle,..or turn religious. 1937 J. P. Marquand Late George Apley (1940) xxviii. 321 In certain diatribes against so-called ‘bluestocking’ classes Apley's name was frequently specifically mentioned as an exception. 2009 W. Moore Wedlock (2010) iv. 83 Mary threw herself into her twin passions of writing and botany... Soon after her marriage, the scholarly earl forbade her from attending Elizabeth Montagu's Blue Stocking gatherings. < as lemmas |
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