"You would prevent us from competing with you," P. Hampson laughs on the page when he writes of the way a Lady Professor of Girtham scolds her male counterparts. "You would separate yourselves on your island of knowledge, and sink the punt which would bear us over to your privileged shore," Hampson tells us she writes, "Of all the twaddle - forgive me, male sycophants - that the world has ever heard, I think the greatest is that which you have talked about female education." "Now," the Lady Professor supposedly writes, "look me straight in the face (no shirking, sir ). Is it not jealousy -...

"You would prevent us from competing with you," P. Hampson laughs on the page when he writes of the way a Lady Professor of Girtham scolds her male counterparts. "You would separate yourselves on your island of knowledge, and sink the punt which would bear us over to your privileged shore," Hampson tells us she writes, "Of all the twaddle - forgive me, male sycophants - that the world has ever heard, I think the greatest is that which you have talked about female education." "Now," the Lady Professor supposedly writes, "look me straight in the face (no shirking, sir ). Is it not jealousy -...