Our original speaker for February unfortunately had to cancel with very short notice but we are absolutely delighted to welcome in his place Jane Robinson, whom many of you will know as a local and acclaimed author and talented public speaker.

“Trailblazer”, Jane’s latest book and the subject of the lecture, tells the story of Barbara Leigh Bodichon, pioneering English educationalist, professional artist friends with the Pre-Raphaelite Circle, as wells a leading mid 19th Century feminist and women’s rights activist, instrumental in the passing of the Married Women’s Property Act 1870, and was a campaigner for women’s university education, co-founding Girton College, Cambridge.