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 inspired millions of young revolutiona.
Woolf Haus Publishing The gadfly: the revolutionary best-seller which inspired adam curtis's can't get you out of my head, paperback/ethel voynich
