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Something Worth Doing
First published 2020
Abigail Scott enters marriage in Oregon Territory expecting domestic responsibility, but injury and financial failure make her the family’s principal earner. Teaching, millinery, farming, fiction and newspaper work expose the legal and economic restrictions imposed on women and lead her into a decades-long campaign for suffrage.
The novel presents public reform beside the cost paid by husband, children and colleagues. Abigail’s conviction that equality is worth doing does not make her infallible; faith and persistence must coexist with rivalry, exhaustion and the need to recognise when determination has hardened into control.
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