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mil? Davies and Girton College. By Lady Stephen. (Con. stable. 21s.) E ever-increasing crowd of women students who flock to the Universities to-day will be eager to read this led and yet comprehensive account of the first stirrings a movement which began by the founding of their ages and ended in the Suffrage. The heroines of S revolution of the 'sixties and 'seventies were notable pie, with not only strength but charm, sufficient to defy Combined forces of ridicule and prejudice. Miss Emily ies, Mrs. Garrett Anderson, Mme. Bodichon and half a others as Lady Stephen allows us to descry their person- les behind their activities make their opponents look small • They did a great work and deserve a full memorial. e eannot help thinking, however, that Lady Stephen would me been better advised had she trusted less to contrast in 'ling attention to their magnificence. The ordinary run the earlier Victorian women were not, as she paints them, rate, imeompanionable, discontented creatures, without se to manage age their households, looked down upon by their n°11c, and by each other. Their minds no doubt were upon marriage," but only during a few short years, Y from eighteen to twenty-five. They married early, or
they gave up hOpe—early. Lady Stephen takes it for granted that the women of the upper middle class are infinitely !nipples and more influential to-day than they were. The reader; however, may read this long and in parts interesting book from the first page to the last and still doubt.
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