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and he rejected the excesses of a purely emotional religion more concerned for sensational effects than for the inner transformation of the self

gives women's interior lives the gravity they so richly deserve – and makes you laugh along the way’ Lena Dunham

Her older brother’s best friend

And Yet They Persisted Illustration open up new possibilitiesA comprehensive history of the womens suffrage movement in the United States, from 1776 to 1965 Most suffrage histories begin in 1848, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton first publicly demanded the right to vote at the Womens Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York. And they end in 1920, when Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment, removing sexual barriers to the vote. And Yet They Persisted traces agitation for the vote over two