Flappers & Fiction

Nothing less than the future of Woman Suffrage hangs over Washington’s grand International Congress, where Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony gather the era’s most celebrated reformers to prove their cause has matured into respectability. Yet a lone correspondent moving among the silk gowns and careful speeches begins to suspect the greater danger lies not with hostile men, but with the vast, unmoved company of ordinary American women who decline even to vote when given the chance.