The 19th
Virginia Harris
Like the “Desperate Housewives” of 1912-1920, perfect for the “Downton Abbey” obsessed. Discover the sexy, shocking truth about how Alice Paul and her army of suffragettes really won votes for women. Go behind the scenes and between the sheets in the crazy real lives of nine women in the run-up to the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920. Characters include incredibly photogenic, charismatic and uncompromising suffragette leaders in England and America, two presidential mistresses, a high society novelist, a Washington power-wife, a barefoot dancer and an immigrant girl with big dreams