Susanna and Alice - Quaker Rebels By Denis, Leslie 9781620068731

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Political activism

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Wordery

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Inc.

Susanna and Alice - Quaker Rebels : Oxford Southern : 9781620068731 : 1620068737 : 27 Apr 2022 : With a revolutionary spirit, two Quaker cousins rebel against tradition. One cousin is notorious: Alice Paul endures censure and prison to win suffrage for women. She's a political powerhouse who organizes the first women's march on Washington and the first pickets in front of the White House. She also obtains ratification of the 19th Amendment and writes the Equal Rights Amendment. The other is completely unknown: spinster Susanna Parry, whose story of passion and rebellion remains untold until a dusty box of letters is discovered in her attic after her death. The letters reveal young Susanna confronting societal norms and parental control to be with the woman she loves. This epistolary biography unfolds through the letters: Alice describes youthful pranks at Swarthmore College and settlement housework in New York and England. Susanna's roommate "E." writes of forbidden love for her

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