Crossword-Solution: BLUESTOCKING 12 letters, 40 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 21

The herd of bluestocking ladies and sonneteering gentlemen seem to consider a strong sensibility to the "splendour of the grass, the glory of the flower," as an ingredient absolutely indispensable in the formation of a poetical mind.

Nothing can be more unjust than to confound these outpourings of a kind heart, sure of perfect sympathy, with the egotism of a bluestocking, who prates to all who come near her about her own novel or her own volume of sonnets.

Some writers seem to think that Madame Marbouty suggested to Balzac /La Muse du Departement/, a Berrichon bluestocking.

Nothing can be more unjust than to confound these outpourings of a kind heart, sure of perfect sympathy, with the egotism of a bluestocking who prates to all who come near her about her own novel or her own volume of sonnets.

There is, therefore, this strict analogy between "the silver fork" reproach and "the bluestocking" reproach--that in both cases alike a recognition, gradually becoming universal, of the thing itself, as a social necessity, has put down forever all idle attempts to throw ridicule upon it--upon literature, in the one case, as a most appropriate female ornament; and upon silver forks, on the other, as an element of social decorum.