Book of the Week - Bluestockings
Miriam Margolyes reads from Jane Robinson's account of the first British women to receive a university education, at Cambridge at the end of the 19th century
Book of the Week - Bluestockings - Episode 1
The story of the sacrifices made by the first young women to arrive at Cambridge University in 1869, as well as the pioneers who helped to get them there.
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Book of the Week - Bluestockings - Episode 2
While, even as late as 1897, women students at Cambridge face burnt effigies and fireworks being hurled at them, the bluestockings begin, quietly, to make their mark.
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Book of the Week - Bluestockings - Episode 3
As the first decades of university education for women slip by, the image of the drab bluestocking has begun to metamorphose into a far more luminous creature, the 'undergraduette'.
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Book of the Week - Bluestockings - Episode 4
From fighting for academic equality, it is only a short step to agitating for political enfranchisment, so the suffragette movement soon makes its mark on academia.
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Book of the Week - Bluestockings - Episode 5
Many bluestockings venture down unexplored career paths as diplomats, aviation engineers, writers and lawyers, all paving the way for future generations of bright young women.
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