Free thinker : sex, suffrage, and the extraordinary life of Helen Hamilton Gardener /

How one "fallen woman" battled religious ideology, pseudoscience and political resistance to women's right to vote. Exposed in Ohio newspapers for an affair with a married man, Alice Chenowyth refused to cower in shame. Instead she changed her name to Helen Hamilton Gardener, moved to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hamlin, Kimberly A. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2020].
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Gardener, Helen H. > (Helen Hamilton), > 1853-1925. Suffragists > United States > Biography. Women intellectuals > United States > Biography. Women's rights > United States > History > 19th century. Sex customs > United States > History > 19th century.

Table of Contents:

A Chenoweth of Virginia
The best and cheapest teachers
A very bad Beecher case
Purgatory and rebirth
Ingersoll in soprano
The cultured poor
Sex in brain
The fictions of fiction
The Harriet Beecher Stowe of fallen women
Wee wifee
Around the world with the sun
Mrs. Day comes to Washington
Old fogies
NAWSA's "diplomatic corps"
Twenty-two favors
Our heroic dead.