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text 2014-11-05 13:51
Suffrage in Romance Novels
Most Peculiar Circumstance, A - Jen Turano
The Suffragette Scandal - Courtney Milan
Wanted: One Scoundrel: A Steampunk Christmas Novella - Jenny Schwartz
Sweet Talking Man - Betina Krahn
Courting Miss Amsel - Kim Vogel Sawyer
Suffragette in the City - Katie MacAlister
Vanquished - Hope Tarr
Cross the Ocean - Holly Bush
The Marrying Kind - Sharon Ihle
The Firebrand - Susan Wiggs

Today, we celebrate. Whatever the outcome, we voted or had the right to vote. I got an I Voted sticker in Vietnamese. My son, who is 7, came with me to the polls and argued every issue with me in the car on the way there. 

 

Here is a list of wonderful Romance Novels featuring issues of suffrage. 

 

1. The Suffragette Scandal by Courtney Milan

2. Wanted: One Scoundrel by Jenny Schwartz

3. Suffragette in the City by Katie MacAlister

4. Cross the Ocean by Holly Bush

5. The Firebrand by Susan Wiggs

6. The Marrying Kind by Sharon Ihle

7. Vanquished by Hope Tarr

8. Courting Miss Amsel by Kim Vogel Sawyer 

9. Sweet Talking Man by Betina Krahn 

10.A Most Peculiar Circumstance by Jen Turano

 

Do you have any favorite Suffragettes? Let me know! To vote for the best Romance Featuring Women's Voting Rights and get more recs, go to my Goodreads list: Suffrage in Romance Novels. 

 

Thank you to all the women and men around the world who died, starved, and marched, for my right to vote. Women and men who were beaten, arrested, imprisoned. Women and men who argued with family, spent time away from their childern. and fought for decades so that I could rush home from work to have my say. 

 

Here are some Suffrage Fighters to remember. If you would like to see more check out my Pinterest Board: Women's Right in Romance. 

 

Emily Wilding Davison (11 October 1872 – 8 June 1913) was a militant activist who fought for women's suffrage in Britain. She was jailed on nine occasions and force-fed 49 times.[1] She is best known for stepping in front of King George V's horse Anmer at the Epsom Derby on 4 June 1913, sustaining injuries that resulted in her death four days later.

 

 

 

Charlotte Hawkins Brown (June 11, 1883 – January 11, 1961) was an American educator, founder of thePalmer Memorial Institute in North Carolina. Brown was a world-traveler and suffragist.

 

 

 

Alice Paul was the leader of the most militant wing of the woman-suffrage movement. Born in 1885 to a wealthy Quaker family in New Jersey, Paul was well-educated–she earned an undergraduate degree in biology from Swarthmore College and a PhD in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania–and determined to win the vote by any means necessary. She was placed in solitary confinement and engaged in a hunger strike. 

 

 

 

The suffragette Lilian Hickling just released from Holloway prison having endured hunger strike. 1913

 

 

Laurence Housman was an English playwright, writer and illustrator. He was a committed socialist and pacifist and founded the Men's League for Women's suffrage with Henry Nevinson and Henry Brailsford in 1907.  In 1909, Laurence, with his sister Clemence founded the Suffrage Atelier, an arts and crafts society who worked closely with the Women's Social and Political Unionand Women's Freedom League

 

 

Meri Te Tai Mangakahia (22 May 1868 – 10 October 1920) was a campaigner for women's suffrage in New Zealand. angakahia was the wife of Hamiora Mangakahia, who, in 1892, was elected Premier of the Kotahitanga Parliament in Hawke's Bay. The following year, Meri Mangakahia addressed the assembly (the first woman to do so), submitting a motion in favour of women being allowed to vote for, and stand as, members of the Parliament. She noted that Māori women were landowners, and should not be barred from political representation.

 

 

 

Mary Jane Clarke (1862–1910), was a British suffragette.She was an organizer in the Women's Social and Political Union. In 1909, she led a group to Downing Street, and was arrested. In 1909, she spoke in Yorkshire. In 1909, she was organizing in Brighton. She ran the WPSU campaign, in the United Kingdom general election, January 1910.[1] After Black Friday (1910), 18 November 1910, she was arrested for window smashing, 23 November 1910, and held in HM Prison Holloway and force-fed. She was released on 23 December 1910. [2] She died 26 December, 1910, inWinchmore Hill, London.[1]

 

 

 

Carrie Chapman Catt (January 9, 1859 – March 9, 1947) was anAmerican women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave U.S. women the right to vote in 1920.

 

 

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