This is one bloody brilliant book. I really enjoyed reading this!

Can you believe females were not accepted as members of Universities, like Cambridge, until 1948? Now I know!

Starting from roughly in 1880-ies, the book features different female figures from Britain's history, some known, some I've never heard before (like Sarah Forbes Bonetta, delivered as a gift to Queen Victoria) and tells their stories blending with that day's political and social background. Explores and explains, the difference it makes being a working class or middle class woman, the marriage laws and how they formed through time, how the society's perception for working women changed, sex, abortion, how WW2 changed a lot of things for women..

From Virginia Woolf to Effie Gray, Babbington Smith to Jane Drew, this book covers a lot of women that took their own small but important parts of history. I liked it as it mentions a lot of lesser known females, and the way it tells is very casual and easy to follow. Not a book just highlight Suffragettes but talks a lot of other women who are part of history and development of the modern day and women's rights.