Coming in 2027

The sweeping, untold history of three women who shaped—and reshaped—women’s fight for representation: Lucy Stone, the daughter of a farmer; Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who came from a life of privilege; and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, a free Black woman who advocated for universal civil rights. Through impeccable research and vivid storytelling, Charlotte Gordon examines how the friendship and eventual rupture between Stanton, Stone, and Harper over race and gender determined the fate of suffrage, race politics, and feminist identity in the United States. 

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“Gordon salutes her subjects because they ‘asserted their right to determine their own destinies, starting a revolution that has yet to end.’”

— New York Times Sunday Book Review, "Editor's Choice"

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—The Seattle Times

“Gordon salutes her subjects because they 'asserted their right to determine their own destinies, starting a revolution that has yet to end.”

— NEW YORK TIMES SUNDAY BOOK REVIEW, "Editor's Choice"

“An impassioned dual biography…Gordon brings a rousing zeal to her pages…. She shows, in vivid detail, how mother influenced daughter, and how the daughter’s struggles mirrored the mother’s.”

— boston globe

“An excellent and poignant book whose heroines breathe in its pages…”

– London Times, “book of the week”