any advocacy of the granting or extension of the suffrage to those now denied it, especially to women. —suffragist,n. syndicalism 1.an economic system in which workers own and manage an industry. 2.a revolutionary form or development of trade unionism, originating in France, aiming at posses...
There’s an element of that in my writing, especially in the Cuckoo Club stories. InThe Last RhinemaidenLouis Beauregard is in his eighties; inShadowbox, he’s in his early twenties. Both novels are set in the 19th century, which involves imagining a lot of absence (which I examine inSh...
As my great-grandmother matured she became involved in the suffragist movement with her cousin Elizabeth Cady Stanton and I see them working together with their fellow suffragettes pursuing a women’s right to vote. Once secured, my great-grandmother exercised her right to vote for the rest of ...
Milholland’s flair for the dramatic and her public speaking skills helped put the suffragist movement on America’s front pages. Yet she never lived to see the ratification in 1920 of the19thAmendment,which recognized women’s right to vote. Inez Milholland on a white horse at the National ...
murders, warriors, healers, peacemakers the grandfathers and grandmothers on whose shoulders we stand they are with us, their spirits sensed . . . .though unseen their hearts are in our mouths as they guard and guide feet rooted in the mud of Earth ...
The women’s wings are no longer clipped. Julia gets married: symbolically, her child is a winged boy. Fun fact: Inez Haynes Irwin, who’d been active in the suffragist movement, was fiction editor of the left-wing periodical The Masses. * André Gide‘s picaresque Les caves du Vatican ...
The Feminist Grandma blogs about unexpectedly raising a grandchild, being a mother once again, aging, friends, family, and things that thrill her or get her goat.
Suffragists agitate in the street, idle-rich bohemians challenge sexual mores, and Patience and Esther slowly come to realize the world is wider and full of more adventure and opportunity than they ever imagined . . . so long as they find the will to seize it. Buy it: Bookshop | Amazon...