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What is a bluestocking?

What is a bluestocking? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (pejorative) A scholarly, literary, or cultured woman.
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Why, from what I know of her and what I have heard of Lady Josephine, she is quite a bluestocking!
Sterne fell in love with Elizabeth Lumley, a cousin to Elizabeth Montagu, the bluestocking.
This was the most brilliant moment in the public career of our bluestocking.
The American debate contrasts favourably with the cavalier way such issues in Britain have been relegated to a quango and the whim of an elderly bluestocking baroness.
She was a bluestocking, to whom German, mathematics, church history, and medicine were pure pleasure.
A bluestocking and a sansculotte, she was also a woman of the very latest cry in frocks.

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