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    <body><![CDATA[This new novel by renowned author Kate Walbert gives us glimpses into the lives of 5 related women over four generations.  It begins in England in 1914 when Dorothy Townsend chooses to starve herself to death in the name of women's suffrage, leaving her two children orphaned.  So begins the legacy o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49353923">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<p>Motivated to read <em>A Short History of Women</em> by a glowing review in the <em>New York Times</em>, I wanted to love it.  What a treasure it would be to have a book that provided through brilliant character portrayal a bridge from Virginia Woolf's London to the subsequent waves of feminist thought and experience ...</p><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72588388">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[From Book Page July 2009<br/><br/><strong>Tracing the role of women through time and place</strong><br/><em>Review by Stephenie Harrison </em><br/><br/>Some books lend themselves to speed-reading, urging you to devour the story with pages turned at a breakneck pace. But other books require a more leisurely perusal, one ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68353214">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Copyright New York Times Company Jun 14, 2009<br/><br/>[Photograph:] <br/><br/><br/>Feminine Mystique By Leah Hager Cohen A SHORT HISTORY OF WOMEN By Kate Walbert. 239 pp. Scribner. $24.<br/><br/>Nearly everything about Kate Walbert's new novel is wickedly smart, starting with the title: &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70396367">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kate Walbert's 'A Short History of Women: A Novel' is proof that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. My journey through this short novel (topping out at under 250 pages) was a slow decline into the depths of hell.<br/><br/>The premise is simple - this is the story of five generations o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79441740">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A Short History of Women is an eloquent and lovely novel that begins at the deathbed of Dorothy Townsend, a suffragette who starves herself and, ultimately, dies to further her cause. Kate Walbert’s novel is not simply about the repercussions of Dorothy’s death, though, but rather about how her ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53091688">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What a smart, good book. Walbert has created five generations - a century+ - of women in one family. Starting with Dorothy, an English suffragist and mother of two, who starves herself to death, Walbert shows each woman, quietly or not-so-quietly, doing her best to figure things out while not quite ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73039640">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was motivated to read this book because it was recommended in the review section of THE WEEK and it also sounded like a historical novel. I really like historical novels.  I also thought I be seen as a cool old man reading a &quot;womens's book&quot; and had hopes of telling all my Goodreader budd...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70711479">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ Wish there were 3 and a half stars! I more than liked this but didn't love it. It's a misrepresentation to call this a novel (as the cover does)--it's actually a collection of linked stories. But there is much to admire in Walbert's prose, and I'm a fan of short stories in any case so I was happy t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64248435">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;What are the fundamental rights and responsibilities of a woman? In this newest endeavor, Walbert strives to answer what Victorians commonly called &quot;&quot;The Woman Question.&quot;&quot; Critics praised this work as an intelligent, emotional, and illuminating family account and feminist s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65553695">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A Short History of Women: A Novel, by Kate Walbert is a story that follows five generations of women, each struggling to find balance in their lives.<br/><br/>It is a subject that has been written about numerous times. The story started out well and drew me in, especially for Dorothy Trevor, who w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57936435">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book started slow for me; it was a little more serious than I was ready for. But it picked up toward the end and I enjoyed it. However, there are still parts I'm confused about - lots of innuendo that remains unresolved. Also, I thought the author could have tied the multiple generations of wom...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78685091">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A small, subtly written book about the lives of five generations of related women, beginning with a suffragette who starved herself for the cause in 1914. Never resorts to the obvious or to melodrama. Spoiler alert: the last paragraph is phenomenal, so I include it here for my own reference.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77418504">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This novel introduced me Kate Walbert, and I know I will look for her earlier books now.  She weaves the stories of 5 generations of women starting with an English suffragist who fasted (to death) to bring attention to the right to vote.  Her sacrifice is remembered in different ways by different de...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63521198">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this book.  I did have trouble keeping the characters and history straight, but once I did I enjoyed seeing the issues and attitudes that shaped the different generations of women.  The 70's brought back some memories, and I liked the way technology added a different perspective in the 2000'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64048554">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Walbert is a master at weaving together fragments, strands of stories and histories and making out of them a whole. I loved &quot;Where She Went&quot; and &quot;Our Kind&quot; and I love this current novel of hers no less. A &quot;short&quot; history of women bears some irony (intentional?)that such...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55838175">more...</a>]]></body>
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