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Following Nellie Bly
Her Record-Breaking Race Around the World
Häftad, 2023
166 kr
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Intrepid journalist Nellie Bly raced through a man's world' alone and literally with just the clothes on her back to beat the fictional record set by Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days. She won the race on 25 January 1890, covering 21,740 miles by ocean liner and train in 72 …
Life and Travels of Isabella Bird
The Fearless Victorian Adventurer
Häftad, 2024
190 kr
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Isabella Bird travelled to the wildest places on earth, but at home in Britain she lay in bed, hardly able to write: 'an invalid at home and a Samson abroad'.In Japan she rode on a 'yezo savage' through foaming floods along unbeaten tracks, and was followed in the city by a crowd of a thousand, …
Mary Neal and the Suffragettes Who Saved Morris Dancing
Inbunden, 2024
288 kr
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At the beginning of the 20th century Morris dancing had all but died out in much of England. It was militant suffragettes and slum girls who kick-started the revival that returned the forgotten dances of the countryside to towns and villages across the nation. As a result of their commitment to …
Speed Queens
A Secret History of Women in Motorsport
Inbunden, 2023
240 kr
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Speed Queens is a history of women in motorsport, from the very beginning in 1897 to the modern era. Tracing the different ways that women have found into motor racing and rallying, it covers over a century of stories across the world. Each chapter takes a particular event as an introduction to a …
Edinburgh Seven
The Story of the First Women to Study Medicine
Av Janey Jones
Inbunden, 2023
232 kr
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Women have healed since the beginning of time, but accessing a formal degree in medicine was impossible for them in Britain until the late 19th century. In 1869, a group of women began arriving in Edinburgh to study at the medical faculty, led by the indomitable Sophia Jex Blake. They would …
Ann Walker
The Life and Death of Gentleman Jack's Wife
Inbunden, 2023
219 kr
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Lesbian. Lover. Lunatic.These are just some of the words usually used to describe Ann Walker, the oft overlooked wife of Anne Lister, better known by some as Gentleman Jack. Ann was one half of England's first same-sex marriage and yet the rainbow plaque that marks their historic union on the wall …
Life and Travels of Isabella Bird
The Fearless Victorian Adventurer
Inbunden, 2021
246 kr
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Isabella Bird travelled to the wildest places on earth, but at home in Britain she lay in bed, hardly able to write: 'an invalid at home and a Samson abroad'.In Japan she rode on a 'yezo savage' through foaming floods along unbeaten tracks, and was followed in the city by a crowd of a thousand, …
Mrs Despard and The Suffrage Movement
Founder of The Women's Freedom League
Av Lynne Graham-Matheson, Helen Matheson-Pollock
Häftad, 2020
176 kr
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Charlotte Despard, social reformer and suffragette, was always known as Mrs Despard, never Charlotte. Her name should be synonymous with those of Emmeline Pankhurst and Millicent Fawcett; instead, she remains overlooked.Born in 1844, Charlotte's childhood was difficult: she found solace in great …
Lady Charlotte Guest
The Exceptional Life of a Female Industrialist
Inbunden, 2020
271 kr
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When impoverished aristocrat Lady Charlotte Bertie married wealthy Welsh ironmaster John Guest of Dowlais in 1833, her relatives looked on with dismay. Yet despite their vast difference of background and age, over their nineteen-year long marriage, husband and wife enjoyed great happiness and much …
Lady Constance Lytton
Prison Reformer and Suffragette
Häftad, 2025
176 kr
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Prisons, as you know, have been my hobby wrote the prominent suffragette Lady Constance Bulwer-Lytton. An influential British activist as well as a writer, speaker and campaigner for votes for women - and not forgetting prison reform - Constance Lytton was born in Vienna and spent the first eleven …
Female Innovators Who Changed Our World
How Women Shaped STEM
Av Emma Shimizu
Inbunden, 2022
219 kr
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We are not all born with equal opportunities. Yet there have been countless women who have overcome a range of barriers such as prejudice, illness, and personal tragedy to advance our understanding of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). They used their knowledge to change the …
Lady Charlotte Guest
The Exceptional Life of a Female Industrialist
Häftad, 2026
453 kr
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When impoverished aristocrat Lady Charlotte Bertie married wealthy Welsh ironmaster John Guest of Dowlais in 1833, her relatives looked on with dismay. Yet despite their vast difference of background and age, over their nineteen-year long marriage, husband and wife enjoyed great happiness and much …
