A review by lmn9812
A Lab of One's Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War by Patricia Fara

4.0

This was a fascinating and vividly told historical journey into the interconnections between women, suffrage and science. As my PhD is focusing on a similar topic (suffrage and the legal profession), I found this infinitely interesting. It took me a little while to get into the book, mainly because this is an under-researched topic area and as such the Patricia had a wide breadth of information to cover. Because of this, it sometimes read as a bit dense. HOWEVER, once I'd got into the structure of A LAB OF ONE'S OWN, I devoured it. I find popular history books like this SO inspiring--bringing a less well known aspect of our history to light is such an important calling, and Patricia's offering was spectacular. I'm definitely going to have to pick up her backlist.