Twenty-first century lessons from the lives of nineteenth century women. Following on from her successful studies of some women from the sixteenth century (‘First Wives Club’) and the eighteenth century (‘Old Wives Tales’), here is Clare Heath-Whyte’s third book. She takes another look at six very different women – Elizabeth Fry, Barbara Wilberforce, Mary Muller, Minny Shaftesbury, Susannah Spurgeon, and Emma Moody. This is a very readable book, as might be expected from a previous winner of the Lightfoot prize for church history at Cambridge University.