Blue stockings / by Jessica Swale.

A moving, comical and eye-opening story of four young women fighting for education and self-determination against the larger backdrop of women's suffrage. 1896. Girton College, Cambridge, the first college in Britain to admit women. The Girton girls study ferociously and match their male peers grade for grade. Yet, when the men graduate, the women leave with nothing but the stigma of being a 'blue stocking' - an unnatural, educated woman. They are denied degrees and go home unqualified and unmarriageable. In?Blue Stockings?, Tess Moffat and her fellow first years.

Cover; Title Page; Contents; Original Production; Note to the Players; Acknowledgements; Dedication; Characters and Note on Text; Act One; Act Two; About the Author; Copyright and Performing Rights Information