A book that gives us the history of Britain through the incredible women who helped it along, Bloody Brilliant Women is a book I didn’t anticipate but the one I have been waiting for.

Expecting another book of profiles I must admit, Bloody Brilliant Women doesn’t do this. Instead we see Newman bring these women to life and tie these chapters together with the experiences they lived through but also bringing to life more amazing women. In particularly women such as Beatrice Shilling, who I feel more people should know about considering the important work she did in world war two in aviation.

Newman also has such a great writing style. Full of humour and a sharp wit that keeps this book such an entertaining read, (particularly when it comes to men’s opinions on what they feel women should want) brought a smirk to my face far too many times in this book. Throughout this book also she includes the perspectives of all women’s experience and includes a diverse range of views and how events affected different women in that period.

An incredible book that details the lives and times of the women who should be in your history classes, Bloody Brilliant Women, is bloody brilliant.

This is one bloody brilliant book. I really enjoyed reading this!

Can you believe females were not accepted as members of Universities, like Cambridge, until 1948? Now I know!

Starting from roughly in 1880-ies, the book features different female figures from Britain's history, some known, some I've never heard before (like Sarah Forbes Bonetta, delivered as a gift to Queen Victoria) and tells their stories blending with that day's political and social background. Explores and explains, the difference it makes being a working class or middle class woman, the marriage laws and how they formed through time, how the society's perception for working women changed, sex, abortion, how WW2 changed a lot of things for women..

From Virginia Woolf to Effie Gray, Babbington Smith to Jane Drew, this book covers a lot of women that took their own small but important parts of history. I liked it as it mentions a lot of lesser known females, and the way it tells is very casual and easy to follow. Not a book just highlight Suffragettes but talks a lot of other women who are part of history and development of the modern day and women's rights.