The Hope Chest
When eleven-year-old Violet runs away from home in 1918 and takes the train to New York City to find her older sister who is a suffragist, she falls in with people her parents would call "the wrong sort," and ends up in Nashville, Tennessee, where "Suffs" and "Antis" are gathered, awaiting the cruci...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Random House,
c2008.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Stolen letters
- Dying Mrs. Renwick
- Meeting Myrtle
- Henry Street
- Hobie and the brakeman
- It all comes down to Tennessee
- Heading to Nashville
- In the Jim Crow car
- Mr. Martins' escape
- Red adn yellow roses
- Finding Chloe - Violet spies
- Dead Horse alley
- Max Bloomstein's pharmacy
- Ferocious Mrs. Catt
- Politics and gunplay
- Hope chest
- August 18
- Freedom
- Historical notes
- Voting in America: Time line.
