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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Elizabeth Cady Stanton Lucile Davis A brief biography of the staunch supporter of women's rights who helped plan the historic Woman's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848. OL14873126W
Maria takes a stand Maria takes a stand Norma Jean Lutz In 1914, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as the war in Europe increases general hostility towards German Americans, twelve-year-old Maria Schmidt finds inspiration in the women's suffrage movement and dec… OL16071116W
Jeanette Rankin Jeanette Rankin Corinne J. Naden "Presents the biography of Jeannette Rankin against the backdrop of her political, historical, and cultural environment"--Provided by publisher. OL16484466W
Angels at Sunset Angels at Sunset Tom Mach The novel begins in 1920 in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where Jessica Radford listens to the very first radio broadcast on KDKA, which broadcasts the presidential election returns. Because of the passa… OL16803855W
After the vote was won After the vote was won Katherine H. Adams "Because scholars have traditionally only examined the efforts of American suffragettes in relation to electoral politics, the history books have missed the story of what these women sought to achiev… OL16980916W
Harriet and Isabella Harriet and Isabella O'Brien, Patricia. A novelization based on a nineteenth-century sex scandal traces how the downfall of Henry Ward Beecher divided the nation and severed the loving relationship between his sisters, author Harriet Beech… OL1956248W
Friends for freedom Friends for freedom Suzanne Slade Discusses how a former slave and an outspoken woman, who came from two different worlds, shared deep-seated beliefs in equality and the need to fight for it. Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass … OL19989239W
Skin like silver Skin like silver Chris Nickson Leeds, England. October, 1891. An unclaimed parcel at the Central Post Office is discovered to contain the decomposing body of a baby boy. It's a gruesome case for DI Tom Harper. Then a fire during t… OL20026795W
Suffragettes Suffragettes Joyce Marlow Queen Victoria is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad wicked folly of women's rights, with all its attendant horrors, on which her poor sex is bent' - … OL20874226W
Girls of Liberty Girls of Liberty Margalit Shilo Following the Balfour Declaration and the British conquest of Palestine (1917-1918), the small Jewish community that lived there wanted to establish an elected assembly as its representative body. Th… OL20932424W
Murder on Location Murder on Location Cathy Pegau 273 pages ; 21 cm OL21137260W
A petrol scented spring A petrol scented spring Ajay Close Arabella Scott, suffragette and hunger striker, is held in solitary confinement for five weeks, force-fed by the prison doctor, Hugh Ferguson Watson. Two years later, his wife, Donella, is trapped in… OL24291705W
Amelia Amelia Brand Whitlock Historical fiction full of love and adventure set in bygone days in the region known as Great Lakes country. Glimpses into the attitudes of turn-of-the-century women regarding the question of women's… OL553441W