The Bluestockings
In Our Time: Culture
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The Blue Stockings, Is It a Formal Conversation?
In the eighteenth century, conduct books stipulate that women must not show intellectually at all. The blue stockings said, whell nonsense wis tout. We are going to appropriate the idea of rational conversation. Also say something aas that if somebody speaks about something they know a great deal about but they nobody else knows much about it is extremely bad manners. And we come to the point now about what happened in the evenings was much more loose.
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