3.5 starsThis book is a volume of stories set on the same day, October 23, 1915, when over a million women in New York City marched for the right to vote. This collection is engaging and the stories well written but the authors could have done a LOT more research into the women's suffrage movement. In England the colors of the WSPU were violet, green and white. The U.S. never had one official color but Alice Paul's National Women's Party colors were gold and purple. The New York Women's Politica...

Thank you Netgalley for an ARC of this book. I had high hopes for this book, with so many talented authors coming together in one collection, and it was even better than I expected. Some stories resonated with me slightly more than others, but I found myself drawn into most of them and wishing that they were full-length books instead of short stories. This is truly a moving and heartfelt set of stories. I learned even more about the movement than I knew previously and look forward to researching...

This was a wonderful book that fit so perfectly with the time, I'm sitting here one week from out election day and feeling the spirit of the women who fought for our rights for over 22 years. This collection of short stories painted the picture of relatable, sympathetic women from so many different backgrounds fighting for their equal voice. I love that it honed in on women of poverty and illustrated the exclusion of women of color because they were so vital to the movement and yet did not gain

Today is Election Day in the United States so it was good timing these last couple of days to be reading this collection of short stories about the march for the women’s right to vote in New York City on October 23, 1915, when thousands of women stood up for the cause. It’s a wonderful way to commemorate that as well as celebrate the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendment. Another reason to read these stories is that they are written by twelve writers who’s names represent a veri...

Minority opinion alert! I seem to be starting a lot of my reviews with questions lately, so here's the Q&A I had with myself while reading Stories from Suffragette City:Q: Hey Regina, do you like to vote?A: Heck yes I do!Q: Are you grateful for the women's suffrage movement that gave you the right to do so?A: 100%.Q: How does a short story collection about it sound?A: Meh, I don't read a lot of short stories.Q: What if the stories are written by authors like Lisa Wingate, Paula McLain, Christina...

I’m usually not a huge fan of short story collections and when it comes to books related to politics, I try to steer as far away as possible -- based on these two reasons alone, I most likely would not have picked up this book under normal circumstances. However, I ended up being drawn to this anthology mostly because of the 13 authors involved, as several of them are among my favorites in terms of previous works of theirs that I’ve read and adored – plus this one being historical fiction defini...

This is a great collection of fictionalized stories about women's suffrage during one of the most famous marches in New York. Each story follows an individual woman's experience with the march. As a feminist and a former New Yorker, I could not have loved this book more. All the stories are good but several struck me as particularly wonderful. "A First Step" by M.J. Rose is a beautiful story which has some wonderful New York history (including a fictionalization of the "family business," Tiffany...

I loved this collection of suffragette stories that all center in some way around the women’s suffrage March in New York City in October of 1915. The authors clearly worked hard together to interconnect the stories beyond the theme, as multiple characters are found in more than one story with their day’s progress. These stories are not all told from one viewpoint, that of the white woman suffragette, but from viewpoints of women from varying walks of life. The women are of different races, relig...

Thank you to Netgalley, Henry Holt and Company and the editors for an early copy of this book.This book was so good. It is a collection of 13 short stories with all stories happening on Oct. 23, 1915. A huge march takes place in New York on this day as women are marching for the right to vote. These stories follow different women who are involved in the march in different ways. I really enjoyed the stories by all the authors but 2 really stood out for me...the ones by Lisa Wingate and Fiona Davi...

Stories from Suffragette City edited by M.J. Rose & Fiona Davis – To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment which afforded some women the right to vote, Davis and Rose decided to assemble an historical-fiction compilation of short stories that all take place on October 23, 1915, the day tens of thousands of women marched down Fifth Avenue in New York City for the right to vote. The collection contains an introduction by Kristin Hannah and stories by 12 bestselling authors

3.5 stars rounded up. I liked this book but didn’t love it, probably because I’m not a big fan of short stories. 12 authors give their take on the women’s march in NYC in 1915. Each story is about a different woman who either marched or wanted to. There are society ladies and working women; white women and women of color; American women and immigrants; older women and young women. The March, or parade as some referred to it is the unifying thread between the stories, as well as a spunky young gi...

As per usual with a short story collection, it's a mixed bag. I loved some of them, was rather "meh" on others. Some felt like prologues, some felt complete, some didn't seem like they went everywhere. I did love seeing people show up in different stories so you sometimes got to learn more about what happened with them, though.

Stories from Suffragette City is a collection of short stories that all take place on October 23, 1915 in New York City when over 25,000 women marched up Fifth Avenue demanding the right to vote. Thirteen well-known authors have written a short story about the march. The stories look at the experiences of the very rich, the very poor and everyone in between. Normally when I read an anthology, I like one of two of the stories better than the others - that wasn't the case with this book - I enjoye...

Stories from Suffragette City was a brilliant idea. Take twelve best-selling authors and have them create a short story about the same day in history. What day you ask? An incredibly important date for women around the world. It was the day that thousands of women marched the streets of New York to earn the right to vote.With each story, a new tale is created with an individual author’s spin on it. I’m curious if I’d be able to guess which of the twelve authors wrote each story if their names we...

Originally published at Reading RealityForget, if you can, the David Bowie classic song, Suffragette City, because the song wasn’t about these suffragettes, in spite of the title. And in spite of the song being the first thing that popped into my head when I read the title. To the point where I have an earworm.But this book is something entirely different.On October 23, 1915, 105 years ago today, between 25,000 and 60,000 women marched through the streets of New York, in front of at least 100,00...

For Women’s History Month, I read “Stories from Suffragette City,” a collection of short stories about the women’s suffrage movement. These historical fiction stories are all centered around a large suffrage parade that was held in New York City on October 23, 1915. A lot of well-known authors contributed stories to this collection including Fiona Davis, Paula McLain, Jamie Ford, M.J. Rose, Chris Bohjalian, etc. Kristin Hannah wrote the introduction. Overall, I really enjoyed all the stories! So...

There were so many distracting historical inaccuracies in this anthology, beginning with the book’s title. I don’t know of any source calling New York “Suffragette City.” Suffrage advocates in the U.S. recoiled from being called “suffragettes,” who were associated with militant British activists. The American women self-consciously called themselves “suffragists.” The David Bowie song “Suffragette City” wasn’t even about the American movement nor even about women’s rights or voting.I looked past...