masculine” traits of learning. Famous romantic writers such as Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and William Hazlitt criticized the bluestockings. …and Hazlitt declared his ‘utter aversion to Bluestockingism … I do not care a fig...

Rather than majoring in frivolities, women should be educated in useful subjects and ‘be furnished with a stock of ideas, and principles, and qualifications, and habits, ready to be applied and appropriated…’ – Hannah More

I do not care a fig for any woman that knows even what an author means.