The decades surrounding 1900 were pivotal both for the relationship between abstract mathematics and practical science and changes in Victorian ideas of a gendered intellect. Claire Jones makes a compelling case that in a time when, unlike today, there were many external impediments to women's participation in mathematics, proportionally more women were active in abstract mathematics than earlier in the 19th century, or for that matter in the 1960s. On the other hand, few women were involved in applied mathematics such as engineering and mathematical physics. Jones, in her well-crafted book, provides some tentative explanations as she explores gender in the changing relationship between pure and applied mathematics.