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The scarlet sisters : sex, suffrage, and scandal in the Gilded Age / Myra MacPherson

Author
MacPherson, Myra
Published
New York : Twelve, 2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Description
xxiv, 401 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Contents
Machine generated contents note: Act One -- ch. One Vicky -- ch. Two Tennie -- Act Two -- ch. Three Wall Street Warriors -- ch. Four The Bewitching Brokers -- ch. Five Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly -- ch. Six "Madam, you are not a citizen, you are a woman!" -- ch. Seven Free Love, Suffrage, and Abolition -- ch. Eight All in the Family: "Never a wholly sane mother" -- ch. Nine Sex and the City, circa 1871 -- Act Three -- ch. Ten Confessions of Sin and Battling the Beechers -- ch. Eleven "Yes, I am a free lover!" -- ch. Twelve From Spirit Ghosts to Karl Marx -- ch. Thirteen Being Tennie -- ch. Fourteen Future Presidentess -- Act Four -- ch. Fifteen Down and Out in Manhattan -- ch. Sixteen Unmasking Beecher and a Masked Ball Rape -- ch. Seventeen Jailbirds and the Naked Truth -- ch. Eighteen Life and Death -- ch. Nineteen Panic and Victory -- ch. Twenty The Star Chamber -- ch. Twenty-One Wickedness in High Places -- ch. Twenty-Two Beecher's Revenge -- Act Five -- ch. Twenty-Three The Siege of London -- ch. Twenty-Four Lady Cook -- ch. Twenty-Five Love and Libel -- ch. Twenty-Six Widows -- ch. Twenty-Seven Moving On -- ch. Twenty-Eight Last Acts.
Summary
Describes the adventures of two sisters who tried to overcome the male-dominated social norms of the late nineteenth century and achieved a remarkable list of firsts, including the first woman-run brokerage house and the first woman to run for president.
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ISBN
9780446570237 (hbk.)
0446570230 (hbk.)
9781455547708 (ebk.)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [343]-389) and index.
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