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Walbert, Kate, 1961-
Subjects
Women -- Fiction.
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
Intergenerational relations -- Fiction.
Suffragists -- England -- Fiction.
Women political activists -- Fiction.
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Walbert, Kate, 1961-
Women -- Fiction.
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
Intergenerational relations -- Fiction.
Suffragists -- England -- Fiction.
Women political activists -- Fiction.
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A
short
history
of
women
: a
novel
/ Kate Walbert.
by
Walbert, Kate, 1961-
Center Point Publishing, c2009.
Call #:
LP FICTION WAL
Subjects
Women
-- Fiction.
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
Intergenerational relations -- Fiction.
Suffragists -- England -- Fiction.
Women
political activists -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781602855175
Edition:
Center Point large print ed.
Description:
302 p. (large print) : geneal. tables ; 23 cm.
Summary:
"A profoundly moving portrayal of the complicated legacies of mothers and daughters, chronicling five generations of
women
from the close of the nineteenth century through the early years of the twenty-first. The
novel
opens in England in 1914 at the deathbed of Dorothy Townsend, a suffragette who starves herself for the cause. Her choice echoes in the stories of her descendants interwoven throughout: a brilliant daughter who tries to escape the burden of her mother's infamy by immigrating to America just after World War I to begin a career in science; a niece who chooses a conventional path -- marriage, children, suburban domesticity -- only to find herself disillusioned with her husband of fifty years and engaged in heartbreaking and futile antiwar protests; a great-granddaughter who wryly articulates the free-floating anxiety of the times while getting drunk on a children's playdate in post-9/11 Manhattan. In a kaleidoscope of voices and with a richness of imagery, emotion, and wit, Walbert portrays the ways in which successive generations of
women
have responded to what the Victorians called "The Woman Question."--"Publisher.
Genre:
Women
's fiction.
Feminist fiction.
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Alderney Gate Public Library
Adult Large Print Fiction
LP FICTION WAL
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