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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
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1853, Abigail Scott was a 19-year-old school teacher in Oregon Territory when she married Ben Duniway. Marriage meant giving up on teaching, but Abigail always believed she was meant to be more than a good wife and mother. When financial mistakes and an injury force Ben to stop working, Abigail becomes the primary breadwinner for her growing family. What she sees as a working woman appalls her, and she devotes her life to fighting for the rights...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1986
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
610L
Physical Desc
61 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1904, nine-year-old Samantha, an orphan living with her wealthy grandmother, and her servant friend Nellie have a midnight adventure when they try to find out what has happened to the seamstress who suddenly left her job.
Author
Language
English
Description
"In the late 1800s, three sisters use witchcraft to change the course of history in Alix E. Harrow's powerful novel of magic and the suffragette movement. In 1893, there's no such thing as witches. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. If the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at the ballot box. But when the Eastwood sisters -- James...
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 3
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
408 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Going toe-to-toe with a brooding Scotsman is rather bold for a respectable suffragist, but when he happens to be one's unexpected husband, what else is an unwilling bride to do? London banking heiress Hattie Greenfield wanted just three things in life: 1. Acclaim as an artist 2. A noble cause 3. Marriage to a young lord who puts the gentle in gentleman. Why then does this Oxford scholar find herself at the altar with the darkly attractive financier...
10) In a gilded cage
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Irish-born detective and Vasser graduate Molly Murphy is hired to find out the truth about her friend's missionary parents' deaths and her loss of inheritance. Another Vasser grad has a philandering husband to track. Set in early 20th-century New York City.
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Description
1876. In the glittering world of Manhattan's upper crust, wives turn a blind eye to husbands' infidelities, and women have few rights and even less independence. The more celebrated the hostess, the more powerful the woman. And none is more powerful than Caroline Astor-- The Mrs. Astor. Alva Vanderbilt has recently married into one of America's richest families, but what good is money when society refuses to acknowledge you? Alva will do whatever...
Author
Publisher
Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
382 pages : genealogical tables ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
1876. In the glittering world of Manhattan's upper crust, wives turn a blind eye to husbands' infidelities, and women have few rights and even less independence. The more celebrated the hostess, the more powerful the woman. And none is more powerful than Caroline Astor-- The Mrs. Astor. Alva Vanderbilt has recently married into one of America's richest families, but what good is money when society refuses to acknowledge you? Alva will do whatever...
13) The front window
Author
Series
Publisher
Grolier Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
55 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
As a successful dressmaker in the Victorian era, Barbie has everything she could ever want, except the right to vote! When the local paper refuses to print a story on women's rights, Barbie's and Skipper's beliefs are put to the test. They have to act, even if it means losing everything.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1999
Lexile measure
740L
Physical Desc
144 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In New York City in 1914, eleven-year-old Susan encounters a mystery through an independent-minded female boarder and becomes involved in the growing suffrage movement.
15) Aggie's home
Author
Series
Orphan train children volume 3
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
116 pages : illustrations, map ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
A clumsy and unattractive twelve-year-old, Aggie is sure no one will want to adopt her when she rides the orphan train out west, but when she meets the eccentric Bradon family she begins to have some hope. Includes historical information about orphan trains and the woman's suffrage movement.
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.
17) Never jam today
Author
Pub. Date
1971
Edition
[1st ed.]
Physical Desc
241 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
730L
Physical Desc
201 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
When "Baby" Lottie learns of the Suffragette movement from her friend, Sara Crewe, she and a new maid at Miss Minchin's school become involved in defiance of Lottie's cold, distant father.
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
Series
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
AD 590L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Dora tells her grandson of how, in 1887 Argonia, Kansas, a group of men who thought women should not vote or hold office put a woman on the ballot as a joke. Includes a note about Susanna and a cake recipe.