Bluestockings by by Susannah Gibson gift and how perhaps we're never

and how perhaps we're never quite as cutting-edge as we might like to believe

‘The most exceptional political memoir I’ve ever read’ ALAN JOHNSON ‘An instant classic’MARINA HYDE ‘At last a politician who can write’SEBASTIAN FAULKS Over the course of a decade

In The Matter of Everything

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Bluestockings by by Susannah Gibson gift and how perhaps we're neverIn 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. Meet the Bluestockings: ELIZABETH MONTAGU hosted a series of glittering salons in her London drawing room, where a circle of women and men discussed theatre,