British author Joanna Miller is the author of the historical fiction novel called The Eights. Set in 1920, four women are the first women to be enrolled at Oxford University. These four women are housed in the 8th dormitory. They have strict rules about what to wear, when they can leave the University (with a chaperone) and who is allowed to visit them. Otto (short for Ottoline) served as a nurse in World War One and she is trying to process the horrors she witnessed. Beatrice is trying to get out from the shadow of her mother, the famous suffragette. Dora had planned to get married but decided to come to Oxford after her brother and fiancee were killed. Marianne is the quiet and clever daughter of a pastor out in the country. She has to go home every other weekend to help him with his church duties. Together they form a friendship to battle the rampant misogyny and the Spanish flu. The author also attended Oxford. These four women are fictional. Some of the events they witnessed were actual.
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