In 1867 Jennifer Harris buries her husband, becomes the mistress of
the president of a major New York City bank, and begins work as a
reporter for Elizabeth Cady Stanton's newspaper. In this capacity
she gets involved with the major issues of the day for women - the
movement for equality and voting rights - and with some major
players - Susan B. Anthony, Victoria Woodhull, Reverend Henry Ward
Beecher, Frederick Douglass, P.T. Barnum and George Francis Train.
The novel is a cross between fiction - the young woman and her
personal problems with life and love - and real characters and
events that impact her, the women's movement and the country. While
working for "The Revolution" she meets with a woman accused of
infanticide, a woman who witnesses the trial of her husband accused
of murdering her lover, and a woman who will become the first
female candidate for President of the United States. On a personal
basis she marries the bank president, and after becoming pregnant
gets a lesson in child-bearing from Elizabeth Blackwell, the first
female doctor in the country. When she gives birth to twins, she
finds herself in double trouble as she is engaged in a legal battle
to keep them. Working now as a reporter for "The Woodhull and
Claflin Weekly," she finds herself in the middle of a religious
riot in New York City between Irish Protestants and Catholics. When
Woodhull is arrested on Federal obscenity charges she witnesses the
trial in which Woodhull makes public charges against Reverend Henry
Ward Beecher. Jennifer writes of one last trial, that of Susan B.
Anthony on charges of illegally voting in an upstate New York
election. At the trial's conclusion Jennifer decides to catch a
secret glimpse of her young son in the upstate home of her
mother-in-law. Proceeding inside the forbidden place, she
accidently kills the elder woman and kidnaps her own son. The
entire novel is written as a journal and the conclusion will be a
surprise to readers.
General
Imprint: |
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
September 2011 |
First published: |
September 2011 |
Authors: |
Richard Beck
|
Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 22mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
394 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4636-0578-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Genre fiction >
Romance >
Historical
|
LSN: |
1-4636-0578-1 |
Barcode: |
9781463605780 |
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