My Dear Hamilton

by Stephanie Dray

Silence is often the only weapon available to ladies. And I wield mine expertly.

“Love is a thing beyond control. Passion is a thing beyond reason. It can’t be denied.”

MEN THINK STITCHERY the most demure of occupations—all they see is gently bred girls, their heads bent in domestic pursuit, their hands kept busy and out of mischief. But my mother knew sewing circles for the wheels of conspiracy that they actually are.