In 1760 few women could read. By 1914 almost all could, most were educated and a few even attended university. Votes for women were not achieved until...
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In 1760 few women could read. By 1914 almost all could, most were educated and a few even attended university. Votes for women were not achieved until after the First World War but the hard work was done before, and from the 1850s the advent of organized feminism had began to improve women's lives. Susie Steinbach examines the way things changed - and the ways they did not - in this history of the lives of women in England.