Blue Stockings

by Jessica Swale

Book Overview

A moving, comical and eye-opening story of four young women fighting for education and self-determination against the larger backdrop of women's suffrage.

1896. Girton College, Cambridge, the first college in Britain to admit women. The Girton girls study ferociously and match their male peers grade for grade. Yet, when the men graduate, the women leave with nothing but the stigma of being a 'blue stocking' - an unnatural, educated woman. They...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848423292
• ISBN13: 9781848423299
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Nick Hern Books
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.7"