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Stories of the Women's Suffrage Movement
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The once and future witches by Alix E. HarrowIn the late 1800s, three sisters use witchcraft to change the course of history in a Hugo award-winning author's novel of magic amid the suffragette movement.
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Something worth doing : a novel of an early suffragist
by Jane Kirkpatrick
A historical tale based on true events follows the experiences of a mid-19th-century pioneer and mother of six who denies herself the joys of a simpler life to run a newspaper about women’s rights and lead suffrage efforts. Simultaneous.
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Old baggage : a novel
by Lissa Evans
"1928. Riffling through a cupboard, Matilda Simpkin comes across a small wooden club--an old possession that she hasn't seen for more than a decade. Immediately, memories come flooding back to Mattie--memories of a thrilling past, which only further serve to remind her of her chafingly uneventful present. During the Women's Suffrage Campaign, she was a militant who was jailed five times and never missed an opportunity to return to the fray. Now in middle age, the closest she gets to the excitement of herold life is the occasional lecture on the legacy of the militant movement. After running into an old suffragette comrade who has committed herself to the wave of Fascism, Mattie realizes there is a new cause she needs to fight for and turns her focus to a new generation of women. Thus the Amazons are formed, a group created to give girls a place to not only exercise their bodies but their minds, and ignite in young women a much-needed interest in the world around them. But when a new girl joins the group, sending Mattie's past crashing into her present, every principle Mattie has ever stood for is threatened"
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City of lies
by Victoria Thompson
"New York, 1917. Elizabeth Miles makes a dangerous enemy when she cons a brutal and greedy entrepreneur out of a great deal of money. With his thugs hot on her trail, Elizabeth seizes the moment to blend in with a group of privileged women campaigning for women's' suffrage and an unlikely bond is formed"
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A well-behaved woman : a novel of the Vanderbilts
by Therese Fowler
Marrying into the newly rich but socially scorned Vanderbilt clan, a formerly impoverished Alva navigates society snubs and dark undercurrents in the lives of her in-laws and friends while testing the limits of her ambitious rule-breaking. By the New York Times best-selling author of Z
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A most peculiar circumstance
by Jen Turano
Traveling throughout America and attending rallies to support the women's suffrage movement, Arabella Beckett inadvertently lands in trouble and reluctantly accepts help from private investigator Theodore Wilder, with whom she repeatedly clashes as the trouble Arabella incited follows her home. Original.
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Lady rights a wrong
by Eliza Casey
After finishing her second Season and not becoming engaged, Lady Cecilia joins the Woman’s Suffrage Union, only to find their charismatic leader dead at the foot of the stairs in the second novel of the mystery series. Original.
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Bringing down the duke
by Evie Dunmore
Recruiting men of influence to champion the rising women's suffrage movement of 1879 England, a daring Oxford rebel targets a cold and calculating duke before their unexpected romance threatens to upend the British social order. Original. A first novel.
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The hourglass factory
by Lucy Ribchester
When a famous trapeze artist disappears in the middle of her act, a young Fleet Street reporter and a police inspector are drawn into the shadowy world of a secret society with ties to early 20th-century London's criminal underworld and its glittering socialites.
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Suffrage : women's long battle for the vote
by Ellen Carol DuBois
Published to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, a high-energy chronicle of the movement for women’s voting rights shares bold portraits of its devoted leaders and activists. By the author of Feminism and Suffrage. (general history). 50,000 first printing. Illustrations.
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The Suffragist Playbook : Your Guide to Changing the World
by Lucinda Robb
A look at some of the prominent women behind the suffragist movement in the U.S. offers readers an eye-opening look at the tactics and strategies employed in one of the largest, longest and least well-known movements in American history, as well as a clear-eyed view of some of the movement’s key figures, including Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frances Willard, Ida B. Wells, Alice Paul and many more.
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The woman's hour : the great fight to win the vote
by Elaine F. Weiss
An uplifting account of the 1920 ratification of the constitutional amendment that granted voting rights to women traces the culmination of seven decades of legal battles and cites the pivotal contributions of famous suffragists and political leaders.
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