Blue Stockings " review
Globe, LondonJessica Swale highlights female students' fight for the right to graduate in 1896"A woman who expends her energy exercising the brain," proclaims the psychiatrist Dr Henry Maudsley in the opening scene of this new play by Jessica Swale, "does so at the expense of her vital organs." It is a key taster of the level of opposition faced by the first generation of female students at Cambridge University, whos…