Meeting at The Taverna!
You are Cordially Invited To
The first Meeting
Of
The Soul Food Café’s
Blue Stocking Society
At
Please bring your views about
Who the Blue Stocking Society was in the Past
And who we are today.
Share your Writing, Art and Your Voice
About this amazing society
With us
This Friday January 19, 2007
(Meeting to run all weekend)
If you are not a Taverna Member please contact
Lori
At
Thank you to Ninjacat for suggesting this week’s agenda
Who was the
Bluestocking Soceity?
In mid-18th-century England, any of a group of women who met to discuss literature. Attempting to replace the playing of cards and such social activities with more intellectual pursuits, they held “conversations” to which they invited men of letters and members of the aristocracy with literary interests. The term probably originated when Mrs. Elizabeth Vesey invited the learned Benjamin Stillingfleet to one of her parties; he declined, saying he lacked appropriate dress, until she told him to come “in his blue stockings” — the ordinary worsted stockings he was wearing at the time. The word bluestocking came to be applied derisively to a woman who affects literary or learned interests.
