An inspiring and startling centenary history of the first professional women whose determination to have successful careers shaped the personal and working lives of women today.
Jane Robinson is also the author of Hearts and Minds- The Untold Story of the Great Piligrimage and How Women Won the Vote and Bluestockings- the Remarkable Story of the First Women to Fight for an Education. She was born in Edinburgh and brought up in Yorkshire before going to Oxford University to study English Language and Literature at Somerville College. She has worked in the antiquarian book trade and as an archivist and is now a full-time writer and lecturer, specialising in social history through women's eyes. She is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, member of the Society of Authors, and founder member of Writers in Oxford. She is married with two sons and lives in Buckinghamshire. Ladies Can't Climb Ladders is her eleventh book.
Arrestingly written…a stirring testament to unsung heroines
*The Observer*
A well researched and entertaining read…a wonderful celebration of
female pioneers
*The Sunday Times*
Robinson writes with an often witty touch, which only serves to
throw into furious relief the seriousness of the resistance women
faced . . . An excellent companion to Robinson's Bluestockings.
*The Financial Times*
An entertaining guide, dipping into ladies’ journals of the time to
add levity to what indeed is a serious message.
*Spectator*
Jane Robinson’s book is a lesson in how unthinkingly we wear
freedom. Well known as a writer and social historian excavating
ordinary women’s lives, Robinson focuses this time on the emergence
of lawyers, doctors, engineers, teachers, architects, scientists
and churchwomen after the passing of the landmark law of 1919.
Modern professional women will read it with a slow burn of anger
and heightened respect for those whose actions, such a relatively
brief time ago, made today possible . . . We ride on the shoulders
of female giants — courageous, eccentric, clever pioneers. Robinson
is a wryly amusing companion and this is an entertaining book,
teeming with characters.
*The Times*
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