True stories of pioneering Cambridge women 1870-1920, and mid-century fiction
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20th-century book club schedule 2026
Hello and welcome to Cambridge Ladies’ Dining Society! Here’s the reading schedule for four books that we’re going to be reading and discussing from September to December 2026 (and the start of 2027), if you’d like to join in. The keynote o...
August letter from Cambridge
A selection of the books I’m currently reading (and planning to read) this summer. And I’ve just discovered that The Children’s Book by A.S. Byatt will be Simon Haisell’s next ‘Slow Read’, starting 4 September 2026.
Suffrage posters...
Some personal book news
Hello, and welcome to the latest edition of Cambridge Ladies’ Dining Society. Just a short one from me this week to let you know that my chapter about Ellen Wordsworth Darwin (1856–1903) has just been published in a new book, From Darwin to...
Ray Strachey, Cambridge suffragist
Last week I wrote a short post about Virginia Woolf’s 1918 novel Night and Day, which, while nostalgic about Victorian way of life, takes place in London around 1910. In the book, the character of Mary Datchet is involved in suffrage work,...
July letter from Cambridge
Have you seen the new film Night & Day, directed by Tina Gharavi? If so, what did you think of it? I haven’t seen it yet, but hoping to go very soon. That ‘&’ in the film’s title is doing a lot of work by the way, distinguishing it from Vir...
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Writing about Cambridge's first women students, scholars and university wives, & discussing overlooked mid-century novels on my 20th-century book club. A Substack Featured Publication 2024.
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