Portrait of a Scotsman (A League of Extraordinary Women, #3)

by Evie Dunmore

How infuriating, she thought as the ferry carried train and passengers across the firth, that for thirty years such masterful feats of engineering allowed people to move freely and quickly across vast distances and uninhabitable terrains, and yet a woman must not go shopping or to a gallery by herself. It was too dangerous, they said, for her reputation, her virtue. But who did the endangering? Men. How convenient for men as a group that the misdeeds of a few elevated each one of them to the status of protector and rendered women dependent on them,