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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Bookish suffragist Catriona Campbell is busy: An ailing estate, academic writer’s block, 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...
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Alice Paul and Lucy Burns were two defiant suffragist women who fought for the passage of the 19th Amendment. The two activists broke from the mainstream women's rights movement and created a more radical wing, daring to push the boundaries to secure women's voting rights in 1920. In a country dominated by chauvinism, this is no easy fight. Along the way, sacrifices are made: Alice gives up a chance for love, and collegue Inez Mulholland gives up...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The story of the 19th Amendment and the nearly 80-year fight for voting rights for women discusses the politics and private challenges that inspired the achievements of such activists as Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Sojourner Truth. By the author of Passenger on the Pearl.
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"An extraordinary woman living in extraordinary times, Lady Frances Ffolkes is an Edwardian-era suffragette who has an uncanny ability to attract danger and romance. When Major Colcombe, a family friend and war veteran, dies under mysterious circumstances, the good Lady Frances discovers that he was working on a manuscript about South Africas bloody Boer War, which reportedly revealed a scandalous mistake that cost many innocent lives. Now, its up...
Author
Series
Poppy Denby investigates volume 1
Publisher
Lion Fiction, an imprint of Lion Hudson
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is 1920. Twenty-two year old Poppy Denby moves from Northumberland to live with her paraplegic aunt in London. Aunt Dot, a suffragette who was injured in battles with the police in 1910, is a feisty and well-connected lady. Poppy has always dreamed of being a journalist, and quickly lands a position as an editorial assistant at the Daily Globe. Then one of the paper's hacks, Bert Isaacs, dies suddenly and messily. Poppy and photographer Daniel...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Suffragette and journalist Charlotte Brody is bracing herself for her first winter in the frontier town of Cordova in the Alaska Territory. But the chilling murder of a local store owner is what really makes her blood run cold...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Escaping the constraints of life as a village schoolmistress, Lilia Brooke bursts into London and into Paul Harriss orderly life, shattering his belief that women are gentle creatures who need protection. Lilia wants to change womens lives by advocating for the vote, free unions, and contraception. Paul, an Anglican priest, has a big ambition of his own: to become the youngest dean of St. Johns Cathedral. Lilia doesnt believe in God, but shes attracted...
Author
Publisher
Union Square Kids
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Carrie Chapman Catt mobilized people across the nation to dare to question a woman's right to vote"--
"Jasmine A. Stirling, author of A Most Clever Girl: How Jane Austen Discovered Her Voice, delivers a powerful, poetic picture book biography about suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt, perfect for fans of I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark and the Rebel Girls series. As a child, Carrie Chapman Catt asked a lot of questions: How many...
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