Blue Stockings in Nelson
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Venue: Theatre Royal, Nelson, NZS
Performer: Blue Stockings
Blue Stockings follows the story of four young women fighting for education and self-determination against the larger backdrop of women’s suffrage. 1896. Girton College, Cambridge, the first college in Britain to admit women. The Girton girls study ferociously and match their male peers grade for grade. Yet, when the men graduate, the women leave with nothing but the stigma of being a ‘blue stocking’ – an unnatural, educated woman. They are denied degrees and go home unqualified and unmarriageable. In Jessica Swale’s play, Tess Moffat and her fellow first years are determined to win the right…
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