Old baggage : a novel / Lissa Evans.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Evans, Lissa, author.

Contributor:

Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fascism.

Suffragists--Fiction.

Suffragists.

Fascism--Fiction.

Literary fiction.

Historical fiction.

Local Subjects:

Literary fiction.

Historical fiction.

Genre:

Historical fiction.

Novels.

Humorous fiction.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

310 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Harper Perennial, 2019.

Summary:

"1928. Riffling through a cupboard, Matilda Simpkin comes across a small wooden club--an old possession that she hasn't seen for more than a decade. Immediately, memories come flooding back to Mattie--memories of a thrilling past, which only further serve to remind her of her chafingly uneventful present. During the Women's Suffrage Campaign, she was a militant who was jailed five times and never missed an opportunity to return to the fray. Now in middle age, the closest she gets to the excitement of her old life is the occasional lecture on the legacy of the militant movement. After running into an old suffragette comrade who has committed herself to the wave of Fascism, Mattie realizes there is a new cause she needs to fight for and turns her focus to a new generation of women. Thus the Amazons are formed, a group created to give girls a place to not only exercise their bodies but their minds, and ignite in young women a much-needed interest in the world around them. But when a new girl joins the group, sending Mattie's past crashing into her present, every principle Mattie has ever stood for is threatened"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

"Author of Crooked Heart"--Cover.

"#1 London Times bestseller"--Cover.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Evans, Lissa, author. Old baggage

ISBN:

9780062895448

0062895443

OCLC:

1055570109