Da ich jetzt über die Suchfunktion nix gefunden habe, möchte ich hiermit einen Thread über das schöne Thema "Bluestockings" oder zu Deutsch "Blaustrümpfe" starten.
Wikipedia beschreibt es ja so schön mit den Worten:
"In the early 1750s Mrs Elizabeth Montagu and others started a women's literary discussion group, a revolutionary step away from traditional mindless women's activities. They invited various people to attend, including a botanist, translator and publisher called Benjamin Stillingfleet. He wasn't rich enough to have the proper formal dress which included black silk stockings. So he attended in his normal clothes, wearing blue worsted stockings.
This started a trend. The husband of one of the group members was Admiral Edward Boscawen, and he derisively referred to the meetings as the "Blue-Stocking Society".
"Bluestocking" then became a term to describe literary/intellectual women."
[Quelle:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue-stocking"]
Was haltet ihr von dieser Gesellschaft?
Wäret ihr auch gerne Mitglied gewesen?
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Ich bin gespannt auf eure Kommentare.
Hier noch ein schöner Link zum Thema: