a time for courage the suffragette diary of kathleen bowen

Bowen, is infinitely more supportive of his own wife’s efforts in the suffragette movement, even if he thinks she goes overboard. This infuriates her uncle to the point where he and Kat’s aunt are having pretty bad marital problems. Kat’s mother is friendly with Alice Paul, the secretary of the Women’s Party, and consequently gets to meet some of the important movers and shakers there along with her mother and aunt and cousin. My senses, honed by reading literally hundreds of these books, are telling me that Bayard is going to cause some trouble. Alma’s father, Kat’s uncle Bayard, is rabidly against women’s rights, and kind of a dick. She’s not a good student (I do love a story about a poor student! They’re not the norm!), she hangs out with her best friend and cousin, Alma, and she likes to go to the drugstore for sodas and ice cream. Her mother and older sister and aunt are active in the suffrage efforts, but Kat just feels kind of blah. Kat is a thirteen-year-old, fairly wealthy girl in Washington, whose whole family is politically active. I’m knocking them out all over the place here.Ī Time For Courage: The Suffragette Diary of Kathleen Bowen, Washington D.C., 1917, Kathryn Lasky, 2002. And a twofer in Thematic Weeks, because Friday is Remembrance Day or Veteran’s Day, and this book is also about the First World War.

Exercise your rights that women worked so hard to get. Today is a special Election Day edition of Young Adult Historical Vault, in honour of my own right to vote! And for all other American women.

A time for courage the suffragette diary of kathleen bowen