The Reporter Wore Petticoats
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ISBN:
0-7414-5785-7
©2010
Price:
$21.95
Book Size:
5.5'' x 8.5''
, 443 pages
Category/Subject:
FICTION / Historical
The nineteenth century springs to life, as Elizabeth Fitzgerald defies society’s rules and defines a woman’s role. Reporting tragedy and triumph, she will move you to laughter and to tears.
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Abstract:
Amid the social and political constraints of the mid-nineteenth century, newspaper reporter Elizabeth Grace Fitzgerald shares her adventures throughout the eastern United States and Great Britain.
Recounted with simplicity, tenderness, humor, and suspense, this fast-paced novel engages the reader in laughter, sympathy and outrage.
Not another dull history book, this story of persons of high and low estate will fuel the reader’s desire to know more about the events of the Abolitionist and Suffrage movements, the Underground Railroad, and the Civil War.
Included is a Teacher/Student guide, which can be adapted for use in English, History, and Creative Writing classes.
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