Description:
One of The New Yorker's Best Books of the Year
"Intimate social history." --New York Times Book Review
An illuminating group portrait of the eighteenth-century women who dared to imagine an active life for themselves in both mind and spirit.
Brief description: Susannah Gibson is an Irish writer and historian. She is the author of The Spirit of Inquiry and Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge in eighteenth-century history and lives in Cambridge, England.
Review Quotes: The author's engaging account honors the determination and charm with which her subjects seized as much freedom as society would allow them. Vivid popular history illuminating some neglected feminist pioneers.-- "Kirkus Reviews"