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Secrets of the Suffragists: Murder, Martyrdom and the Occult on the Movement's Fringes

Secrets of the Suffragists: Murder, Martyrdom and the Occult on the Movement's Fringes

Florey, Kenneth

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General World HistoryWomen's Studies

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ISBN10: 1476660255
ISBN13: 9781476660257
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Pages: 147
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The eighteen chapters in this book contain stories about suffragists that, despite their highly dramatic content, have often been unappreciated and sometimes even overlooked. There is, for example, the account of Susan B. Anthony's experiences with the ghosts of Lily Dale, The intense interest in Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for president, by a man who may have been Jack the Ripper, the Grand Marshall of the 1913 Washington suffrage parade's murder of her husband's second wife, the nationwide mockery of Belva Lockwood through Mother Hubbard Parades, and the relentless fight of Katharine Hepburn, mother of the actress, against prostitution in the city of Hartford. Further stories include that of the woman who was refused her party's nomination for school board until she pledged not to marry her opponent, the farmer's wife who, like Susan B. Anthony, was arrested for voting, and the waitresses who went on strike with the support of suffragists after one of their number had been sexually assaulted. These stories of triumph, tragedy, persistence, bravery, and dedication give us additional insight and appreciation for those involved in the decades-long struggle for women's suffrage.

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