BLUESTOCKINGS: THE FIRST WOMENS MOVEMENT (HB)

In Britain in the 1750s, women had no power and no rights - all money and property belonged to their fathers or husbands. A brave group risked everything to think and live as they wished, despite the sneers of contemporaries who argued that books frazzled female brains and damaged their wombs. In this brilliant book, Susannah Gibson explores the lives and legacies of the forgotten heroines of Britain's very first women's movement who went on to inspire writers and thinkers from Mary Wollstonecraft to Virginia Woolf and lead the way for feminism.