As agitadoras começa quando Harriet Tubman ainda é escrava e Frances Seward e Martha Wright são jovens mulheres que se opõem a seus papéis tradicionais. Termina décadas mais tarde, depois que os filhos de Wright e Seward e a própria Tubman participaram de três dos confrontos decisivos da Guerra Civil. Por meio dos relatos sarcásticos e angustiados dos protagonistas, reconstruídos a partir de suas cartas, diários e aparições públicas, vemos os debates mais explosivos da época e retratos de ...

**An Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year, Christopher Award Winner, and Chautauqua Prize Finalist!“Engrossing... examines the major events of the mid 19th century through the lives of three key figures in the abolitionist and women’s rights movements.” —SmithsonianFrom the executive editor of The New Yorker, a riveting, provocative, and revelatory history told through the story of three women—Harriet Tubman, Frances Seward, and Martha Wright—i...

From the author of The Agitators, the acclaimed and captivating true story of two restless society girls who left their affluent lives to “rough it” as teachers in the wilds of Colorado in 1916.In the summer of 1916, Dorothy Woodruff and Rosamond Underwood, bored by society luncheons, charity work, and the effete men who courted them, left their families in Auburn, New York, to teach school in the wilds of northwestern Colorado. They lived...