Keeping behind dispirited intellectual woman
I believe the answer is:
bluestocking
'intellectual woman' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'keeping behind dispirited' is the wordplay.
'keeping' becomes 'stocking'.
'behind' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'dispirited' becomes 'blue' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'stocking' put after 'blue' is 'BLUESTOCKING'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for bluestocking that I've seen before include "Female scholar" , "Dated term for an intellectual woman" , "scholarly woman" , "woman of intelligence" .)