Blue Stockings Society
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The Blue Stockings Society was an informal women's social and educational movement in England in the mid-18th century that emphasised education and mutual cooperation. It was founded in the early 1750
1778 painting of the society's members, including Anna Letitia Barbauld, Elizabeth Carter, Elizabeth Griffith, Angelica Kauffmann, Charlotte Lennox, Catharine Macaulay, Elizabeth Montagu, Hannah More and Elizabeth Ann Sheridan
The centre house, 16 Royal Crescent, Bath, was used as a residence and to host Blue Stockings Society events by Elizabeth Montagu
1815 caricature of the Blue Stockings Society by Thomas Rowlandson
Worsted
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Worsted is a high-quality type of wool yarn, the fabric made from this yarn, and a yarn weight category. The name derives from Worstead, a village in the English county of Norfolk. That village, toget
Blue Stockings Society
…to his financial standing, did not dress for the occasion as formally as was customary and deemed "proper", in consequence appearing in everyday, blue worsted stockings. The society gave rise to the term "bluestocking", referred to the informal quality of the gatherings and the emphasis on conversation rather…
A blue worsted wool girl's dress from the United States, made in approximately 1878, from the collection of Conner Prairie
A former worsted mill in Hudson, Massachusetts
Worsted yarn made from Merino wool
Hermann Sondermann Familie mit Frau am Spinnrad detail