Jane Robinson (born 1959) is a British social historian specialising in women’s history. She has published on female pioneers in a range of fields including education, travel, and the professions, and on other women’s social history topics including suffrage, illegitimacy, and the Women’s Institute.
Books in order of publication:
Wayward Women: a Guide to Women Travellers (1990, Oxford UP)
Unsuitable for Ladies: an Anthology of Women Travellers (1994, Oxford UP)
Angels of Albion : Women of the Indian Mutiny (1996, Viking)
Parrot Pie for Breakfast : an Anthology of Women Pioneers (1999, Oxford UP)
Pandora’s Daughters: the Secret History of Enterprising Women (2002, Constable
Published in USA as Women Out of Bounds: the Secret History of Enterprising Women (2003, Carroll & Graf)
Mary Seacole: The Charismatic Black Nurse Who Became a Heroine of the Crimea (2005, Constable)
Bluestockings : the Remarkable Story of the First Women to Fight for an Education (2009, Viking )
A Force to be Reckoned With: A History of the Women’s Institute (2011, Virago)
In the Family Way: Illegitimacy Between the Great War and the Swinging Sixties (2015, Viking)
Hearts And Minds: The Untold Story of the Great Pilgrimage and How Women Won the Vote (2018, Doubleday)
Ladies Can’t Climb Ladders – The Pioneering Adventures of the First Professional Women (2020, Doubleday)
Trailblazer: The First Feminist to Change Our World – 2024
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