Inspired by the exhibition of embroideries by Britta Marakatt-Labba (b1951) at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, this week on the Post we have art and culture from Sápmi (formerly Lapland). Her depictions of Sámi life, created with thousands of tiny stitches, combine elements of the oral storytelling tradition, everyday scenes, historical events, accounts of state oppression, and reflections on a threatened natural environment. One of her recurring themes is the "writing" of letters, which began as a way to get in touch with the authorities after the Chernobyl accident in 1986 and the major impact this had on Sámi life. This is Čáliimet reivve (We Wrote a Letter), 1995.

And this is our favourite café in Bath. It wouldn't suit everyone as it is the epitome of cheap-and-cheerful. But where else could you have a cup of tea and two scrambled eggs on toast for £5.50 and be transported right back to the 1960s? The staff are delightful, the formica, lino and lighting are incredibly nostalgic, and we cannot recommend it enough. However, as we said, it wouldn't suit everyone. But, in addition, it's in the wonderful Guildhall Market which visitors to Bath often miss but is really the jewel in the crown – it has literally everything, although let us pick out three indispensables: knitting wool (not at all expensive), blue berets (ditto) and the kind of things it's usually impossible to buy except from the website we don't mention: 13 amp fuses, large Chinese lampshades, and those white enamel bowls with a blue rim but not at crazy prices. It's ten minutes walk from the shop and shouldn't be missed by anyone coming to Bath to see us.

This beautiful painting by Paul Methuen shows Catharine Place (just behind the Royal Crescent) and the edge of Margaret's Buildings (home to Berdoulat, Uber and The Green Bird café). It was painted some time in the 1940s, after the large house on the left had been rebuilt following the Bath Blitz but before the street behind it (Circus Mews) was rebuilt. Paul Methuen was a kind and philanthropic person: 'Four years after the destruction of the premises of the Bath School of Art in 1942, he  offered Corsham Court as the Bath School of Art; now it is used by Bath Spa University..' 

Eagle House on the outskirts of Bath has been mentioned on the Post before because it was a refuge for suffragettes coming out of prison. How mad it all seems now, and to thousands of people did at the time: all that effort and meanness just to stop women having a vote! Well, Eagle House was an extremely welcome refuge. This photograph shows Annie Kenney, Mary Blathwayt (whose parents owned the house) and Emmeline Pankhurst in the garden of Eagle House in 1910.

The Roman Bath has no  particular connection with women writers but a) our logo must be contemporaneous with it b) the head of Minerva, which was found nearby in 1727, is of course gloriously female and c) the videos that are shown inside the Bath feature many different women (they are actors, but it is so well done that it's not hard to believe that one has stepped back in time for a few minutes).

The writer of the Post is on granny duty in Stockholm this week so the Post is being written by the Persephone girls in Bath. And therefore we shall focus all week on Bath itself. Here is 25 Milsom Street (the house on the right of the large Victorian building, formerly a bank) across the road from the Persephone Bookshop. Mary Wollstonecraft lived here when it was the home of a Mrs Dawson, to whom Mary was, very unhappily, a companion from 1779-80. It would be twenty years before she would write A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, but it would not be an exaggeration to say that she was plotting it during those terrible walks down Milsom Street, along George Street (with the newly built Edgar Buildings across the road) or plodding up Gay Street to The Circus.