Blue Stockings is a fictional story inspired by real events. It takes place in Girton College, Cambridge during the 1896/97 academic year, when most people (including women) still believed that a woman’s place was in the home. In fact, a desire by a woman to pursue an academic career was seen as ‘unnatural’.
The story is set at a time when the Women’s Suffrage movement was starting to gather momentum, and focuses on a small group of women who wanted to learn … and more than that, they wanted their achievement to be properly recognised with a Cambridge degree.
An amateur production presented by arrangement with Nick Hern Books