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Although I rarely choose to read short stories, I'm so glad I made an exception in requesting Stories from Suffragette City. While each story is set in New York City on October 15, 1915, the day when thousands of women marched up Fifth Avenue demanding the right to vote, each story in this collection is unique. And each one will resonate with women and men today who can appreciate the long, hard struggle to earn women's suffrage. While I liked all the stories, I think my favorites were the first, "Apple Season," and the last, "The Last Mile". The first featured a main character who was impoverished; the last featured characters who were privileged. I enjoyed seeing that the right to vote was important to all women, not just those of a certain social class. This would make a great "car book." You know, the book you leave in your car for the times you are stuck in traffic or find yourself at an appointment, having forgotten the book you are currently reading. I recommend it to those readers who care about justice - and to those who don't care but should.

Although I don't read many short story collections, this one sounded interesting, particularly because several were written by authors I know and like. Stories from Suffragette City includes 13 stories, each one standing on its own, yet several linked by the same characters. The story lines were good. Some of the fictional accounts I recognized from other reading I've done on the suffragette movement but I enjoyed learning about some who were unfamiliar. If you want to learn more about this topic, Suffragists in Washington, DC: The 1913 Parade and the Fight for the Vote by Rebecca Boggs Roberts, provides an excellent historical look at this same subject.

How timely to compile a collection of short stories showcasing the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment. The women's right to vote has become a given but there was a time in our history it was denied. The stories, well written by thirteen contemporary authors brings to light the fact it was not always an easy choice for a woman of that day to march in a parade and indeed many women thought it was inappropriate.

The stories in this collection are centered on the same event – the 1915 New York City Suffragette march; however, each story approaches this event from a different and personal angle, The authors have given an intimate view into the journey of each woman and man portrayed.

There are the women who dared, against the conventional patterns of behavior for the time, and the men mostly who were opposing. This short stories collection allows each story to stand by itself and yet weave an invisible thread through the entire collection. Woven into several of the stories is the young girl, Miss Suffragette City whose aunt thought it was important she witness this historical parade. Armed with her aunt's brownie camera she appears in the lives of several of the marchers. Women from all walks of life had very personal reasons for pursuing the right to vote and these reasons are well defined throughout the stories.

While I did read the collection straight through it would also be a grand book to keep by the bedside to read one at time or to clear your palate between full-length books. This collection serves as a history lesson of sorts and as a call to action to remind women to use their collective voices to effect change and that our freedoms were not easily won,.

With thanks to BookBrowse for the opportunity to read and review StoriesFrom Suffragette City. I usually do not like short stories but was intrigued by the subject,so I requested a preview copy.
The book is comprised of 12 stories centered around the huge Suffrage Parade in New York City in 1915, each written by a current popular author,most specializing in historical fiction. There is one character,the young niece of Charles Tiffany,who appears in more than one story connecting them. The women range from socialites to factory workers,immigrants,students,orphans and men supporting their wives. Black women were not included. A young Chinese student who marched was not able to vote until 1943.
I really enjoyed the book and highly recommend it.

What a great way to live a little bit of history. Each story handles the October 12, 1915 suffrage parade from a different angle, through a different character's eyes--young, old, men, women, women of color. As you go deeper into the collection the kaleidoscope view comes into focus. You see how much the suffrage movement accomplished, and how much more it had to accomplish. There is something for everyone here.

Some of the stories were good however some dragged. I liked the concept but it fell short for me. I felt it could have covered more about the planning of the march.

My high school history class read this book for our "Portrayals of History" class. I was excited to see something about women's suffrage, because there are very few things about women's suffrage out there for the public.

First of all, the name "suffragette" was a derogatory term used by anti-suffragists that was later reclaimed by British suffragettes. American people in favor of women's suffrage were called "suffragists"; "suffragette" would have still been negative. This book is American, not British, and therefore should not have used the term "suffragette".

The chapters were very LOOSELY tied together, really just with the young girl, Grace. I would have liked to see some more connections between them. There were clearly some chapters that focused on the history and were well-researched (such as "Just Politics"). However, there were also quite a few stories that were fully fiction and the mix between the two were confusing. These authors have clearly never written short stories and each one felt like the first chapter to their own book. I enjoy historical fiction, but had never heard of these authors. It seems that all the people giving these reviews liked the authors.

As for accuracy, it's not terrible because it is intended to be historical fiction. But, the mix between the nonfiction and the fictionalized creates a mess.

It seems like the authors didn't even talk to each other. Many of the stories seemed unoriginal and overdone. For example, there are two stories about infertile women longing for children. There were also many poor, immigrant, women that have unsupportive men in their lives that hate on suffragists. The "woe is me" female suffragist is overdone in this book. My class forgot the plots of many of the stories because they bled into each other so much.

There were very few non-white characters, which isn't necessarily inaccurate, but the non-white characters were the most well-rounded characters because they were real. Why did the non-white characters have to be real? Couldn't they have made fictionalized POC characters?

Overall, the book wasn't memorable at all and I do not recommend it for anyone interested in the topic. I love history so my favorite stories were the history-filled ones.