In Go Home and Do The Washing retired doctor Lorna Brierley and journalist Helen Reid celebrate the hidden, yet enormous contribution to education, social service, medicine, the arts and politics that the pioneering women of Bristol have made over the last 300 years.

Three centuries of Pioneering Bristol Women

Eliza Walker Dunbar
pioneer of health provision

Elizabeth Blackwell
Britain’s first woman doctor

Emma Saunders
friend of the railway workers

Amelia Edwards
Bristol Egyptologist

Mary Carpenter
devoted to the destitute children of Bristol

Ada Vachell
champion of the city’s disabled

Emma Marshall
best selling author

Hannah More
social reformer, educator and writer

Teresa Garnett
Suffragette who horse-whipped Winston Churchill at Temple Meads….
These are only a few of the varied and extraordinary Bristol women whose lives are traced in this book, many of them for the first time.

isbn: 1 874092 95 8