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BLUESTOCKING , a derisive name for a See also:literary woman. The See also:term originated in or about 1750, when Mrs See also:Elizabeth See also:Montagu (q.v.) made a determined effort to introduce into society a healthier and more intellectual See also:tone, by holding assemblies at which literary conversation and discussions were to take the See also:place of See also:cards and See also:gossip. Most of those attending were conspicuous by the plainness of their See also:dress, and a Mr See also:Benjamin See also:Stillingfleet specially caused comment by always wearing See also:blue or worsted stockings instead of the usual See also:black See also:silk. It was in See also:special reference to him that Mrs Montagu's See also:friends were called the Bluestocking Society or See also:Club, and the See also:women frequenting her See also:house in See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill See also:Street came to be known as the " Bluestocking Ladies " or simply " bluestockings." As an alternative explanation, the origin of the name is attributed to Mrs Montagu's deliberate See also:adoption of blue stockings (in which See also:fashion she was followed by all her women friends) as the badge of the society she wished to See also:form. She is said to have obtained the See also:idea from See also:Paris, where in the 17th See also:century there was a revival of a social See also:reunion in 1590 on the lines of that formed in 1400 at See also:Venice, the ladies and men of which wore blue stockings. The term had been applied in See also:England as See also:early as 1653 to the Little See also:Parliament, in allusion to the puritanically See also:plain and coarse dress of the members.
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