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Author
Series
Molly Murphy mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
276 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Private investigator Molly Murphy, having been arrested during a women's suffrage march and met two Vassar graduates while in jail, helps the women uncover information about their families--one wants to know about her inheritance, which she believes her uncle swindled, and the other needs proof of a philandering husband.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"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
Publisher
Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
53 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
In this imaginative biographical story, Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony sit down over a cup of tea in 1904 to reminisce about their struggles and triumphs in the service of freedom and women's rights.
Author
Language
English
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"In 1853, Abigail Scott was a nineteen-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 Abigail becomes the primary breadwinner for her growing family, what she sees as a working woman appalls her -- and prompts her to devote her life to fighting for the rights of women, including the right to vote."--...
Author
Series
League of extraordinary women novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
England, 1879. Annabelle Archer, the brilliant but destitute daughter of a country vicar, has earned herself a place among the first cohort of female students at the renowned University of Oxford. In return for her scholarship, she must support the rising women's suffrage movement. Her charge: recruit men of influence to champion their cause. Her target: Sebastian Devereux, the cold and calculating Duke of Montgomery who steers Britain's politics...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2008
Physical Desc
6 sound discs (6 hr., 45 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Samantha Parkington is an orphan being raised by her wealthy grandmother at the start of a brand-new century, a time when new ideas and inventions are changing everyone's lives. Samantha's own world is filled with elegance and privilege, but she sees that not everyone's life is changing for the better--especially her friend Nellie, a servant girl who lives next door. Some people consider "mixing with servants" bold and improper. But for Samantha,...
Author
Language
English
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Description
'In this delightful debut' (Newsweek) based on actual events, as a team of male scholars compiles the first Oxford English Dictionary, one of their daughters decides to collect the 'objectionable' words they omit.
Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first...
Author
Series
League of extraordinary women novels volume 4
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
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...
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