Elizabeth Started All the Trouble
Doreen Rappaport, illustrated by Matt Faulkner
ISBN: 9780786851423
Read May 2, 2016
Caricature-like faces and postures enliven a cumulative history of the women's rights movement up to the ammendment in 1920.
Faulkner has done a delightful job of illustrating this lively history of women's rights, but the real tribute needs to go to Rappaport for clarifying and streamlining the history of the movement. We start with Abigail Adams being mocked by her husband for wanting women to share the vote, and move through the depressing intervening years to Elizabeth Cady Stanton's Declaration of Sentiments, Sojourner Truth's pointed commentary about the intersection of women's rights and the African American experience, Susan B. Anthony's takeover and the early victories in founding women's colleges and seminaries, and granting women the right to own property and keep money. The war showcases more women who refused to be passive and ladylike, and then came Emancipation, victories in western states, and the start of the protest movement in earnest, with the mass jailings, beatings, and force-feedings that entailed (present, but glossed over gently and quickly in this particular edition).
Powerful and clear. An excellent history overview of a topic that is especially important now.
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