英语词汇bluestockings的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

bluestockings. Only one of the original bluestockings wore homely blue stockings, and he was a man, a Mr. Benjamin Still- ingfleet. The group was founded by Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu in about 1750 as a kind of literary salon based on Parisian models. Leading intellectuals of the era gave talks at Mrs. Montagu’s London home and conventional evenings of card-playing were replaced by intellectual discussions. All of the club members dressed simply as a reaction against the ostentatious evening clothes of the time, but only the one male member wore blue- gray tradesman’s hose in place of gentlemen’s black silk hose. Nevertheless, a contemporary wit twisted the fact and called all these intellectual ladies bluestockings, the word coming to mean a dowdy, affected literary lady, even though Mrs. Mon- tagu was a beautiful woman and an author whose work was highly praised by Dr. Johnson. These early feminists were held in contempt by “proper ladies” of the time, but male chauvin- ists were most vehement about them. “A bluestocking,” said Rousseau, “is a woman who will remain a spinster as long as there are sensible men on earth.”

词汇	bluestockings
词源	bluestockings. Only one of the original bluestockings wore homely blue stockings, and he was a man, a Mr. Benjamin Still- ingfleet. The group was founded by Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu in about 1750 as a kind of literary salon based on Parisian models. Leading intellectuals of the era gave talks at Mrs. Montagu’s London home and conventional evenings of card-playing were replaced by intellectual discussions. All of the club members dressed simply as a reaction against the ostentatious evening clothes of the time, but only the one male member wore blue- gray tradesman’s hose in place of gentlemen’s black silk hose. Nevertheless, a contemporary wit twisted the fact and called all these intellectual ladies bluestockings, the word coming to mean a dowdy, affected literary lady, even though Mrs. Mon- tagu was a beautiful woman and an author whose work was highly praised by Dr. Johnson. These early feminists were held in contempt by “proper ladies” of the time, but male chauvin- ists were most vehement about them. “A bluestocking,” said Rousseau, “is a woman who will remain a spinster as long as there are sensible men on earth.”
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