Bluestockings: The Remarkable Story of the First Women to Fight for an Education by Jane Robinson

Bluestockings: The Remarkable Story of the First Women to Fight for an Education

Jane Robinson

261 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history informative reflective slow-paced
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In 1869, when five women enrolled at university for the first time in British history, the female brain was thought to be 1500 grams lighter than a mans, and doctors warned that if women studied too hard their wombs would wither and die. Despite t...

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