Sweet Cicely: Or Josiah Allen As A Politician

by Marietta Holley

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392 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1885

About the author

Marietta Holley was an American humorist who used satire to comment on U.S. society and politics. Holley's writing was frequently compared to that of Mark Twain and Edgar Nye.
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Reviews

[Amy · Rating 2 out of 5]

Too much moralizin' en prechin'. There was a time for the arts to try and further the rights of American women to vote, but many of the stories describing what women had to go through with dumb fellers takin' their liberties and children and souls was downright depressing. The tales were very much against the evils of liquor and the fight for prohibition, too, and we all know how well that went. Again, it's important to know our history, but so much of this book was pages and pages of speeches why these things were needed, it just wasn't, well, fun. Holley did manage some subtleties and a lot of humor, but it was offset by this too much.