bluestocking

noun3

1. •
   (disapproving) A scholarly, literary, or cultured woman.

   • Many of her ladyship’s letters were the most whimsical rhodomontades that ever blue-stocking penned. — 1844
2. •
   (historical) A member of an 18th-century Blue Stockings Society.
3. •
   (historical) A member of the English parliament of 1653, more commonly called the Barebones Parliament.