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Bluestockings: The Remarkable Story Of The First Women To Fight For An
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Jane Robinson's Bluestockings is the incredible story of the fight for female education in Britain In 1869 when five women enrolled at university for the first time in British history the average female brain was thought to be 150 grams lighter than a man's Doctors warned that if women studied too hard their wombs would wither and die When the Cambridge Senate held a vote on whether women students should be allowed official membership of the university there was a full-scale riotDespite the prejudice and the terrible sacrifices they faced women from all backgrounds persevered and paved the way for the generations who have followed them since By the 1920s being an 'undergraduette' was considered quite the fashionable thing; by the 1930s women were emerging from universities as anything from
aviation engineers to professional academicsBluestockings tells an inspiring story - of defiance and determination of colourful eccentricity and at times heartbreaking loneliness as well as of passionate friendships midnight cocoa-parties and glorious self-discovery'Social history of the best kind' Sunday Times'Modern girls need reminding of the long battle and Jane Robinson's fine book does just that charting the lives and struggles of campaigners But there is more joy than sorrow' Mail on Sunday Jane Robinson was born in Edinburgh and brought up in Yorkshire Her books about women travellers and pioneers have established her as an engaging social historian with an appreciative eye for eccentricity Jane lives near Oxford with her husband and two sons
aviation engineers to professional academicsBluestockings tells an inspiring story - of defiance and determination of colourful eccentricity and at times heartbreaking loneliness as well as of passionate friendships midnight cocoa-parties and glorious self-discovery'Social history of the best kind' Sunday Times'Modern girls need reminding of the long battle and Jane Robinson's fine book does just that charting the lives and struggles of campaigners But there is more joy than sorrow' Mail on Sunday Jane Robinson was born in Edinburgh and brought up in Yorkshire Her books about women travellers and pioneers have established her as an engaging social historian with an appreciative eye for eccentricity Jane lives near Oxford with her husband and two sons
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