Blue stockings
By: Jessica Swale
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London]
Language: eng
Subjects: Drama; Women; Education (Higher); University of Cambridge
Description: 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 are denied degrees and go home unqualified and unmarriageable.
Notes: Previously issued in print: London: Nick Hern Books, 2013.