The Gadfly
Voynich, Ethel / Boole, Ethel Lilian / Voynich, E. L.
The most exciting novel I have ever read" - Bertrand Russell "At the end of the nineteenth century, Ethel Boole [Voynich] had gone to Russia as a young girl and become involved with the revolutionaries in Saint Petersburg. She wrote a novel called The Gadfly - it told a powerful, romantic story of a young girl who sacrificed everything for revolution. Without realising it, [Voynich] had become a hero of the Russian revolution ... her novel ins...