Jane Robinson
Author
"One of our most engaging and original social historians"
Jane Robinson is an acclaimed author and public speaker who specialises in social history through women’s eyes.
Her thirteen books include Bluestockings: the Remarkable Story of the First Women to Fight for an Education; Hearts and Minds: The Untold Story of the Great Pilgrimage and How Women Won the Vote, and Ladies Can't Climb Ladders: the Pioneering Adventures of the First Professional Women, launched on 23 January 2020. A short biography of Josephine Butler was published by SPCK in October 2020. Trailblazer, a major biography of Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon was published in February 2024, alongside the audiobook read by Jane. She's currently working on Lunatic Women: a women's history of madness, featuring a group of C19th and early C20th pioneers who revolutionised the way we treat mental illness today.
[Author photograph by Richard James]
Her thirteen books include Bluestockings: the Remarkable Story of the First Women to Fight for an Education; Hearts and Minds: The Untold Story of the Great Pilgrimage and How Women Won the Vote, and Ladies Can't Climb Ladders: the Pioneering Adventures of the First Professional Women, launched on 23 January 2020. A short biography of Josephine Butler was published by SPCK in October 2020. Trailblazer, a major biography of Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon was published in February 2024, alongside the audiobook read by Jane. She's currently working on Lunatic Women: a women's history of madness, featuring a group of C19th and early C20th pioneers who revolutionised the way we treat mental illness today.
[Author photograph by Richard James]
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