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“…the rising movement of romanticism, with its characteristic idealism, one that tended toward a black-and-white view of the world based on those ideas, preferred for different reasons that women remain untinged by “masculineâ€� 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 â€� I do not care a fig for any woman that knows even what an author means.' Because of the tremendous influence that romanticism gained over the cultural mind-set, the term bluestocking came to be a derogatory term applied to learned, pedantic women, particularly conservative ones. ... Furthermore, learned women did not fit in with the romantic notion of a damsel in distress waiting to be rescued by a knight in shining armor any more than they fit in with the antirevolutionary fear of progress.”
― Karen Swallow Prior, Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist

“Truthfully, I thought some of Robert's outfits a tad too daring. The necklines on some of his shirts plunged further south than those sported by a courtesan from the continent. He owned more patterned scarves than any sensible man ever should.”
― Maddy Kobar, With a Reckless Abandon

“For all the loose morals Robert and his beloved poets had, they were right to celebrate love for it was one of the most powerful forces on earth.”
― Maddy Kobar, With a Reckless Abandon

“I was the great family embarrassment after all. Wren was hardly my first misstep. Father called them missteps but to me they were legitimate romances. Live and let love.”
― Maddy Kobar, With a Reckless Abandon

“You deserve better. I'll give you something so, so much better. By all the beating hearts of the rebel poets, I do solemnly swear, my darling, you shall soon be free!”
― Maddy Kobar, With a Reckless Abandon