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.