On Bluestockings and Beauty: 19th Century Advice for Educated

The Victorian bluestocking was considered to be, as one 1876 publication puts it, “a stiff, stilted, queer literary woman of a dubious age.”

The Blue-Stockings – Jane Austen in Vermont

The Blue Stockings Society – warm days will never cease

A Lady of Good Family,' by Jeanne Mackin - The New York Times

Portrait of Marianne Ashley Walker, by Gilbert Stuart, 1799

319. Louise Seidler (German 1786-1866)

Education

Who were the Bluestockings?

O My America!

19th Century Beauty Orders

Here's How Women Fought For The Right To Be Educated

Romantic bluestockings: from muses to matrons (Chapter 1) - Bluestockings Displayed

Historical Considerations of Women and Gender in Higher Education

Friday essay: how 19th century ideas influenced today's attitudes to women's beauty

19th Century Beauty Outlet Seller