Blue Stockings " review by Michael Billington

Shakespeare's Globe, LondonJessica Swale's first play leaves you astonished at the prejudices the pioneers of women's education had to overcomeJessica Swale has chosen, for her first play, a cracking subject: the battle fought at Girton College, Cambridge, in 1896 to earn women the right to graduate. Even if each scene is calculated to make a point, Swale writes with palpable vigour and leaves you astonished at the p…

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