Gifted with a powerful voice, a razor-sharp wit, and unbounded energy, eighteen-year-abolitionist Anna Dickinson sets out to surpass the men of her day as she speaks out against injustice. Only one thing that can bring her downfall—an assassin’s bullet.
Former mill girl, Julia Pennington, fights her growing attraction to the fiery orator while protecting her from the onslaught of the press. But when a vengeful reporter sets out to assassinate Anna, Julia must risk her life to save the woman she loves.
Loosely based on the life of forgotten orator, feminist, and lesbian, Anna Dickinson, That Dickinson Girl is the story of one woman’s rise to fame and fortune at the expense of love during the political and social turmoil of the American Civil War.
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It’s so wonderful that Joan Koster is in the world to write about all these amazing women in our past.
She is one of the most amazing women I know herself and she’s always lifting other women up. I love all I have learned from her about American history!