Susannah Gibson
Bluestockings
The First Women’s Movement
In 18th century Britain, women had no power and no rights - all money and property belonged to their fathers or husbands. Susannah Gibson charts the struggles and achievements of a group of trailblazing women who risked their reputations to become public intellectuals. Burdened with ailing children and unsympathetic husbands, enduring the sneers of contemporaries, they read, wrote and published their work. Bluestockings laid the essential foundations for future feminists to build upon.
- Bluestockings (John Murray)
- View Book
- Wednesday, 5th June
- 12:00pm
- Main House
- £13.00
- Festival Pass available for this event and others @ £160.00
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