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Fifth book to be published March 4. The Scarlet Sisters: Six Suffrage and Scandal in the Gilded Age.The reads-like-fiction true story of VIctoria Woodhull and Tennie Claflin, Free Lovers who shocked the world and upset the white male power structure fighting for women's equality everywhere--from the board room to the bedroom--in the 1870's.

I was a long time reporter for the Washington Post and wrote for the New York Times. I covered sports when women were not allowed in the press box, let alone the locker room; and covered five national presidential elections. Love reading, theater, movies, sports, partying with family and friends.

All my books are non-fiction; I loved the research, if not the winnowing down and writing. Luckily they have ...more

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Myra MacPherson and 1 other person liked Nikki's review of The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age: "I found The Scarlet Sisters to be a highly interesting read. I do not recall ever having heard of the Claflin sisters prior to encountering this book, which I feel is rather a shame considering the ideas these two had. Victoria and Tennie were truly " Read more of this review »
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Myra MacPherson and 4 other people liked LillyBooks's review of The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age: "I really liked the subject matter of this book, the story of two sisters who crusaded for women's rights in the 1860s/1870s. As I had never heard of the two women, I found almost almost all of the information new and enlightening. But I wasn't wowed " Read more of this review »
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Myra MacPherson liked Socraticgadfly's review of The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age: "A good overview of the lives of the famous, or infamous, Victoria Woodhull and Tennessee Claflin, free love advocates and among the first suffragists to not come from somewhat upper-level backgrounds. That much I knew. As I did the basics of their Spi" Read more of this review »
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“Marriage is the grave of love.”
― Myra MacPherson, The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age

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“When facing one indignant male colleague after another who demanded how she could be both a member of Congress and a mother, she said, “Because I have a brain and a uterus and both work.”
― Myra MacPherson, The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age

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“Henry Ward Beecher used the parade and the IWA’s eight-hour-day battle to hector the working poor from the pulpit. Fewer hours would tend “to make men feel that work is not a good thing… hard knocks, and a good many of them” were the only way to “carve out independent fortunes.” Beecher admitted that underpaid workers could not make enough in an eight-hour day to advance from their lowly state at their present pay, but he neglected to denounce the owners who paid them so poorly. Working longer hours was his Christian solution.”
― Myra MacPherson, The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age

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