![]() ![]() Besides being a book lover, Lilia is a hard-working, spirited suffragette, willing to risk her life for voting rights for herself and future generations of women.īy contrast, Paul Harris is an Anglo-Catholic priest who doesn’t want to rock the boat. I felt an immediate connection to Lilia Brooke (I don’t like people who make dog-ears, cracked spines, or torn pages in books, either). Given time, she could forgive most offenses, but all bets were off if violence was done to her favorite book. The day her pupil’s father threw Lilia Brooke’s copy of Homer’s Odyssey across the schoolroom was the day she knew she’d have to leave Ingleford. I thought it was going to be a romance set against the English suffragette movement, but it turned out to be so much more. The book I chose was Impossible Saints: A Novel by Clarissa Harwood. I decided to begin my own celebration of the occasion by reading a book set during the early 1900s when women were advocating/fighting for the right to vote. This month marks the one-hundred-year anniversary of women gaining the right to vote in the U.S. ![]()
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