"Agnes Metcalfe - To My Fellow Country Women" by Frances M Lynch by electric voice theatre

"Agnes Metcalfe - To My Fellow Country Women" begins with a short spoken introduction by Dr Patricia Fara, Vice President of the British Society for the History of Science, and the remainder of the piece is sung and spoken by Frances M Lynch - even the dogs!

It tells the story of Agnes Metcalfe (born in 1870) who was a pioneer in education for girls and a suffragette. Of course, education and votes for women were linked together.

"The question of the education of women is intimately connected with that of their enfranchisement." (Agnes Metcalfe)

In 1892 she was one of the first women to secure an external University of London Bachelor of Science degree, and she brought the thorough and meticulous approach of a scientist to everything she did.
Agnes wrote a very influential paper on education for girls that was published in the early 1900s. Her three chronicles of the suffrage movement appeared during the First World War with the final one immediately afterwards in 1919.
She also wrote a book for children about a dog named Kim "Memoirs of a Mongrel" by himself.
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