A Rogue of One's Own (A League of Extraordinary Women, #2)

by Evie Dunmore

“I would have shown you a list.” She drew back. “A list.” “I know you like a good list.” His fingers slid into the chest pocket of his waistcoat and extracted a slip of paper. “Voilà.” The list contained names: Mary Wollstonecraft Mary Shelley Ada Lovelace Mary Somerville Harriet Taylor Mill Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Millicent Fawcett Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Millicent’s sister and the first woman to obtain a medical degree in London. Ada Lovelace, known for her excellent mathematical work on a difference engine. All women who were pioneers or outstanding contributors to a particular field. But if that was the criterion, the list was hardly exhaustive, and so her mind scrambled, trying to find the common denominator linking the names. . . . “Women who advanced worthy causes outside the home,” said Tristan, “despite being burdened with a husband, protocol, and oftentimes, children.