Born in 1889, Gertrude Harding spent a boistrous childhood on a Welsford, New Brunswick, farm. She travelled to Hawaii to live with her sister, and, when her sister moved to London in 1912, Harding went with her. One day, from the top...
Suffragists
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Author:Wilson, GretchenSummary: -
Author:Ware, SusanSummary:An acclaimed historian gives voice to the thousands of women from different backgrounds, races, and religions whose local passion and protest resounded throughout the land.
- Author:Conkling, WinifredSummary:
On August 18, 1920, American women finally won the right to vote. Ratification of the 19th Amendment was the culmination of an almost eighty-year fight in which some of the fiercest, most passionate women in history marched, protested,...
- Author:Baillargeon, Denyse, Roth, KätheSummary:
"When the history of suffrage is written, the role played by our politicians will cut a sad figure beside that of the women they insulted." Speaking in 1935, feminist Idola Saint-Jean captured the bitter nature of Quebec women...
- Author:Chiaverini, JenniferSummary:
New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini returns with The Women's March, an enthralling historical novel of the woman's suffrage movement inspired by three courageous women who bravely risked their lives and...
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Author:Smith, Barbara, McClung, NellieSummary:Although her name today is synonymous with the women’s suffrage movement in Canada, Nellie McClung’s long and varied career covered several fields—from social activist to elected politician, from novelist to journalist. McClung was...
- Author:Barrett, KerrySummary:
What makes Esther, born and bred in London, a proud Suffragette, suddenly leave the city and escape to Elm Heath? And when Lizzie uncovers Esther's heartbreaking secret, could it give her the strength she needs to save not just the...
- Author:Strong-Boag, VeronicaSummary:
The Last Suffragist Standing is an unprecedented study of a pioneering politician, a New Woman who tested Canadian democracy. Laura Marshall Jamieson (1882–1964) was the last suffragist in Canada to be elected to a provincial or federal...
- Author:Ross, Dana FullerSummary:
Heading west after a fight with his folks, seventeen-year-old Frank Blake, the great-grandson of frontiersman Whip Holt, finds adventure and danger, while back in the city, his cousin Tim Holt, meddles with a fiesty suffragette.
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Author:Sangster, JoanSummary:The achievement of the vote in 1918 is often celebrated as a triumphant moment in the onward, upward advancement of Canadian women. Acclaimed historian Joan Sangster looks beyond the shiny rhetoric of anniversary celebrations and...
- Author:Witemeyer, KarenSummary:
Men are optional. That's the credo Emma Chandler's suffragette aunts preached and why she started a successful women's colony in Harper's Station, Texas. But when an unknown assailant tries repeatedly to drive them out, Emma admits they...
- Author:Bartoletti, Susan CampbellSummary:
In time to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of woman suffrage in America, Susan Campbell Bartoletti presents the tirelessly researched story of the little-known DC Women's March of 1913.
