Bluestocking
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The Bluestocking society was an informal women's social and educational movement that came into being in England in the mid-eighteenth century in imitation of a similar - though more formal - movement in France.
The most striking difference between the two movements was the English emphasis on education and mutual co-operation as opposed to the French emphasis on social "networking" and individual social progress.
Ada Byron Lovelace was a bluestocking in her youth.
There was also a Japanese women's magazine following the Meiji Restoration that referred to itself as Bluestockings (Seitô). The magazine initially focused on women's literature, but turned into a magazine devoted to achieving women's liberation. The women doing the writing in the magazine were called New Women.
External links
- Bluestocking Archive (http://www.faculty.umb.edu/elizabeth_fay/toc.html)