Learning from the Lasses: Women of the Patrick Geddes Circle

Walter Stephen and a bevy of Modern Geddesians investigate the women who had an influence on, or were influenced by, the Scottish thinker, Patrick Geddes. Ranging from his mother to an Indian nun, his wife to a suffragette, this volume crosses the globe, highlighting the far-reaching influence of Geddes and the range of very different women who were linked to him in one way or another.Starting out with his family in Scotland and giving a detailed insight into life in historic Edinburgh and ...