Blue-stocking - Definition and Overview

The Blue stocking 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 magzine devoted to achieving women's liberation. The women doing the writing in the magazine were called New Woman.

External links

• A longer history of the movement (http://www.amherst.edu/~bluesox/history.htm)

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