With the biography of Anna Howard Shaw (1847-1919), this book focuses on an important woman suffrage leader who has too often been overlooked and misunderstood. It shows how circumstances and choices both impacted Shaw's role in the woman suffrage movement and set her apart from her native-born, middle- and upper-class colleagues.
Trisha Franzen is a professor of women's and gender studies at Albion College and the author of Spinsters and Lesbians: Independent Womanhood in the United States.
