Gilded Suffragists The New York Socialites who Fought for Women's Right to Vote by Johanna Neuman

Gilded Suffragists The New York Socialites who Fought for Women's Right to Vote by Johanna Neuman in bookstores these days is a wonderful book. If you are a woman you must read it. It's very clear, bubbling, entertaining and plenty of informations, book, dreaming in some part, but mostly, while you will read it, you will "live" the sensation of being transported thanks to the light, sunny writing-style of the author at the beginning of 1900s.
It's a story of women this one and of women of the best and most influential families of NYC, the richest part, wonderfully "painted" and described.
There are the Astor, Belmont, Harriman, Tiffany, Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, including many intellectual great names and of course the creative women and girls working in the city, for a total of more than 200 girls and ladies all ready for starting the suffrage movement.
A trip in the past but also in that rights so forgotten and neglected. If we are more free is also thanks to these women.
An anecdotes for all: problems like the sinking of the Titanic was in 192, didn't create just polemics because of the lack of sufficient lifeboats but also because most men left their place to a lot of women and children with a profound discussion between the various parts.
John J. Astor IV died in April 12  with other 1503 other souls.
He accompanied his pregnant wife to a lifeboat leaving her alone because the motto was is and always will be: "Women and children before" and then he died. When the Titanic sank.
Some men asked: "Would the suffragette have stood on that deck for women's rights or for women's privileges?"

Read it: it's a wonderful tale, plenty of informations, funny, electrifying. You'll just adore it!

I thank NetGalley and NY University Press for this eBook.



Anna Maria Polidori