Tag: bluestocking

  • Elizabeth Montagu: who was she, and why the blue stockings?

    Thomas Rowlandson (1756–1827), Breaking Up of the Blue Stocking Club.
    Source: NYPL, The Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle

    Last Tuesday, I went to York for my weekly salsa dancing class, with 2.5 hours to kill beforehand. I decided to go for a wander, the kind with no fixed destination in mind. In true flâneur style, I dropped my phone in my bag, put one foot in front of the other, and took whichever street I liked the look of.
    And that’s how I found out about Elizabeth Montagu.

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