Rose Clarke and the Pursuit of Learning

Society balls and the marriage market are not Rose’s idea of life.

She wants to meet men who can think of her as an equal . . . but the only such one she is attracted to has left for the Army. 

The opportunity arises to spend three months supervising her profligate brother, learning Greek and Mathematics with him, and it is there she conceives the idea of furthering her education by disguising herself as a boy and attending Cambridge University. 

This proves to be exhilarating and, on occasion, frightening, especially when she discovers a coded message . . . 

Rose Clarke and the Pursuit of Learning