Word: bluestockingism
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In the nylon bluestocking set, she appears to be the most enviable of women. She is still remarkably handsome at 43. She is renowned among her friends both as a wit and a cook. She is currently in Venice, long after the mere tourists have gone, and in Manhattan her...
The Beautiful Bluestocking. Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, daughter of a well-to-do businessman and created Marquise de Pompadour by her royal lover, arrived in the "rats' nests" in 1745, stayed at the court 20 years until her death at 42. Her figure seemed to be made wholly of nymphish...
Firmly, calculating, she worked her way into the King's arms by making her salon a favorite with the most brilliant of France's intellectuals-Philosophers Montesquieu, Helvétius, the great Voltaire himself. The decisive meeting of the King and the beautiful bluestocking occurred at the splendid...
New Face in Court. Boston's bluestocking Back Bay Fifth Ward needed a new representative in the legislature. Herter had all the necessary social and political credentials and decided to run. In the effortless fashion of Back Bay politics, he got himself elected, and in 1931 made a gentlemanly...
Raymond's all-the-news formula worked. By 1865, the Times's circulation went up to 75,000; in income, it was second only to the Herald. Raymond also prospered; he dined in the walnut-paneled Union Club. Politically, he was neither as "infernally Tory" as Greeley (now...