| Why, from what I know of her and what I have heard of Lady Josephine, she is quite a bluestocking! |
| She was a bluestocking, to whom German, mathematics, church history, and medicine were pure pleasure. |
| As for her daughter, she was a bluestocking, one of only four of the class of 1958 debs who won a place at university. |
| A bluestocking and a sansculotte, she was also a woman of the very latest cry in frocks. |
| I am not going to caricature a bluestocking, but to point out one or two real dangers. |
| 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. |
