Editorial note — Translated from Le Correspondant. Learned Women and Studious Women. By Monseigneur Dupanloup. (Concluded.)
Reading edition
[Footnote 34: In the language of unreflecting persons who instinctively love to attack every thing elevated, perhaps in order to drag others down to their own level, the word "blue-stocking" signifies a woman who reads, and greatest of all offences converses.]