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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Bookish suffragist Catriona Campbell is busy: An ailing estate, academic writer's block, and a tense time for England's women's rights campaign--the last thing she needs is to be stuck playing host to her father's distractingly attractive young colleague. Deeply introverted Catriona lives for her work at Oxford and her fight for women's suffrage. She dreams of romance, too, but since all her attempts at love have ended badly, she now keeps her desires...
Author
Language
English
Description
Twenty-five-year-old Alice Paul returns to her native New Jersey after several years on the front lines of the suffrage movement in Great Britain. Weakened from imprisonment and hunger strikes, she is nevertheless determined to invigorate the stagnant suffrage movement in her homeland. Nine states have already granted women voting rights, but only a constitutional amendment will secure the vote for all. To inspire support for the campaign, Alice organizes...
Author
Series
Daniel Pitt novel volume 6
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Working his way up at London law firm fford Croft and Gibson, Daniel Pitt is named second prosecutor on a fraud case with the potential to make or break his--and the firm's--reputation. The trouble is, Malcolm Vayne, the man on trial, has deep pockets, and even deeper connections. Vayne's philanthropic efforts paint him a hero in the eyes of the public, but Daniel's friend Ian, a police officer, has evidence to suggest otherwise. Nervously working...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Men are optional. That was the credo Emma Chandler's suffragette aunts taught her and why she started a successful women's colony in Harper's Station, Texas. But when an unknown assailant tries repeatedly to drive the women out, Emma is forced to admit they might need a man after all. One who can fight. And there is only one she trusts enough to ask. Malachi Shaw has finally earned the respect he's always craved by becoming an explosives expert for...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Katie Jones is committed to fighting for the cause of women's suffrage. She has no time for romance, especially not with her best friend Ben Rafferty. But when her column in Ben's newspaper stirs things up, sparks begin to fly. He's set on winning her over, but she's just as determined to stay true to her 1916 feminist ideals. With such strong obstacles in the way, their relationship can't possibly progress. Unless somehow love finds a way...
Author
Series
(Victoria E.).Counterfeit lady novel volume 7
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A year has passed since Elizabeth Bates ran her last con. Life has been simpler, although not nearly as exciting, but she has thrown herself into working to get the 19th Amendment ratified by thirty-six states to become the law of the land. Since every other Southern state has already rejected the amendment, it seems unlikely Tennessee will be an exception...but it's their only hope, so the suffragists descend on Tennessee for the final battle. Elizabeth's...
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 252 pages : map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From a chorus of bestselling historical fiction writers, a breathtaking book inspired by the day tens of thousands of women marched for the right to vote on October, 23, 1915. Includes an introduction by Kristin Hannah and stories by Lisa Wingate, M. J. Rose, Steve Berry, Paula McLain, Katherine J. Chen, Christina Baker Kline, Jamie Ford, Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Megan Chance, Alyson Richman, Chris Bohjalian, and Fiona Davis."--
Author
Series
League of extraordinary women novel volume 2
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
430 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A lady must have money and an army of her own if she is to win a revolution--but first, she must pit her wits against the wiles of an irresistible rogue bent on wrecking her plans...and her heart. Lady Lucie is fuming. She and her band of Oxford suffragists have finally scraped together enough capital to control one of London's major publishing houses, with one purpose: to use it in a coup against Parliament. But who could have predicted that the...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Lexile measure
880L
Physical Desc
352 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In Portland, Oregon, in 1900, seventeen-year-old Olivia Mead, a suffragist, is hypnotized by the intriguing young Henri Reverie, who's paid by her father to make her more docile and womanly but who, instead, gives her the ability to see people's true natures, while she secretly continues fighting for women's rights.
Author
Series
Girls of Lighthouse Lane volume 2
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
670L
Physical Desc
183 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1906, mortified by her mother's suffragist activities that cause the family to move from New York City to Cape Light, fourteen-year-old Rose sees no value in her mother's feminist views until she tries to enter a horse riding competition open only to boys.
12) Suffragette
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by true events, a moving drama exploring the passion and heartbreak of the women who risked everything in their fight for equality in early 20th century Britain. The story centers on Maud, a working wife and mother whose life is forever changed when she is secretly recruited to join the U.K.'s growing suffragette movement. Galvanized by the outlaw fugitive Emmeline Pankhurst, Maud becomes an activist for the cause alongside women from all...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Private Investigator Theodore Wilder is on a mission to find Arabella Beckett. But this feisty suffragette may be more trouble than he bargained for!" --
Author
Series
Description
"1895 -- Cecily is enchanted when she meets Rosalind, a photographer. But Cecily's father refuses to let her help Rosalind; can Cecily follow her dreams?" -- Page [4] cover.
"1914 -- When Polly discovers her neighbors are suffragettes, fighting for women's right to vote, she is determined to join them. But her parents are scandalized; will Polly dare to defy them" -- Page [4] cover.
16) The savage heart
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
297 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The love of Tess Meredith,the orphaned suffragette daughter of a frontier doctor, for Raven Following, the Sioux warrior she befriended as a child, seems doomed when he abandons his heritage and builds a new life for himself as a detective in turn-of-the-century Chicago. Then she arrives back into his world, bringing the past with her.
17) Polly's march
Author
Series
Historical house volume 1914
Pub. Date
2009
Lexile measure
860L
Physical Desc
202 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In London in 1914, Polly supports suffragettes who demand women's right to vote.
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
207, 6 pages : portrait ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"On December 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright flew the world's first airplane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, establishing the Wright Brothers as world-renowned pioneers of flight. Known to far fewer people was their whip-smart and well-educated sister Katharine, a suffragette and early feminist. After Wilbur passed away, Katharine lived with and took care of her increasingly reclusive brother Orville, who often turned to his more confident and...
Author
Series
Publisher
EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
2 volumes in 1 (374 pages) : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"1895 -- Cecily is enchanted when she meets Rosalind, a photographer. But Cecily's father refuses to let her help Rosalind; can Cecily follow her dreams?" -- Page [4] cover.
"1914 -- When Polly discovers her neighbors are suffragettes, fighting for women's right to vote, she is determined to join them. But her parents are scandalized; will Polly dare to defy them" -- Page [4] cover.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
195 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1920s Cuba, Rima is bullied and shunned for her illegitimacy, but finds solace in riding her horse and forges unexpected friendships with others who share her dreams of freedom and suffrage. Includes historical note.
Rima loves to ride horses alongside her abuela and Las Mambisas, the fierce women veterans who fought during Cubas wars for independence. Feminists from many backgrounds have gathered in voting clubs to demand suffrage and equality...