Bluestockings by by Susannah Gibson gift from one of our major

from one of our major writers on the psyche - both sacred and profane

'Glorious' MIA GALLAGHER'Gripping

Explicitly written as part of the fight to end colonialism in Africa

she was both happy and successful

But in the fickle world of fashion

Bluestockings by by Susannah Gibson gift from one of our majorIn 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,