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A short history of women : a novel / Kate Walbert.

by Walbert, Kate, 1961-

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Center Point Publishing, c2009.

Women -- Fiction.

Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.

Intergenerational relations -- Fiction.

Suffragists -- England -- Fiction.

Women political activists -- Fiction.

Center Point large print ed.

302 p. (large print) : geneal. tables ; 23 cm.

"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.

Women's fiction.

Feminist fiction.

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