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Samenvatting van Een Amerikaanse suffragette
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Back from India, a doctor follows a suffrage parade banner before a box of tainted fruit leads to his trial.
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Samenvatting: 8 min leestijd
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- 44.200 woorden
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- Uitdagend long sentences, a rich vocabulary
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- 1911by Isaac Newton Stevens
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Een Amerikaanse suffragette in short
Dr. John Earl comes home to New York a famous healer, engaged to a wealthy young woman and unaware that the city has changed. A suffrage parade and a lawyer named Silvia Holland draw him into a world of working women and new ideas.
What Een Amerikaanse suffragette is about
A doctor steps off an ocean liner in New York and finds reporters waiting, because the papers call him the man who brings the dead back to life. That afternoon he watches six thousand women march down Fifth Avenue, and he cannot look away from the one at the end of the banner.
An American Suffragette is a novel by Isaac Newton Stevens, who died in 1920. He wrote it while the vote for women was a live struggle. You get a love story, a courtroom drama and a murder mystery, with jokes, speeches and big ideas about healing and justice.
Voor wie is het?. You will love this book if you enjoy early twentieth century New York, courtroom scenes, a mystery with clues in plain sight, and romance wrapped around real debates.
The story in 9 parts
Key idea 1 · free to read
A celebrated doctor returns to a changing city
The novel opens on a New York pier, where reporters crowd around Dr. John Earl. He has been away eighteen months, studying healing in Europe and India. A young reporter tells a wild tale of how Earl saved a copper king in Paris, and an older newsman sets it straight. Earl used a method learned in India to hold a weak patient in a deep sleep for surgery.
Earl refuses every interview. Waiting for him are his sister Hilda, his lively younger brother Frank, and his fiancée Leonora Kimball. Society calls the match perfect, but Stevens hints that it rests on looks and money.
Then the city surprises him. From his hotel window he sees a suffrage parade, and at the head of the banner carriers marches a tall young woman in white. He has seen her twice before, in London and at the Paris opera. That night Hilda names her. She is Silvia Holland, a law graduate who lives by her own work.
A man who has studied everything except his own heart is about to meet the woman who will change what he sees.
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A night of games ends with a warning
The suffrage bazaar and ball is described with obvious fun.
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A child hurt in the street tests two doctors
As the dancers go for their cloaks, a cry comes from the street.
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Society, rivals and meetings pull the lovers apart
Fifth Avenue has a thousand eyes.
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A summer of work ends in an arrest
Earl's practice grows through the summer.
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A woman lawyer faces a packed courtroom
The trial opens before a crowd drawn by a man fighting for his life and by the novelty of a woman leading his defense.
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Women's independence is the book's great cause
The central argument of the novel is that women cannot be free until they can earn their own living and vote.
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Mind, faith and healing face professional prejudice
The second theme concerns the mind and the way new ideas are met.
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How the story is told and what holds it together
Stevens writes as an open advocate.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- Dr. John Earl A tall, modest physician home from India with new methods of healing, who wants to prove them in practice and is drawn to the suffrage cause.
- Silvia Holland A rich young lawyer and banner bearer who lives on her own work, speaks for women's rights, and takes the hardest case of her career.
- Frank Earl Jack's witty younger brother, a Colorado railroad lawyer who hides a serious mind behind jokes and falls for a brilliant woman.
- Leonora Kimball Earl's pretty, conventional fiancée, who wants a husband of her own social set and cannot accept his sympathy for suffragists.
- Dr. Orrin Morris A dark, ambitious surgeon and violinist who loves Silvia through music and resents his old classmate.
- Carroll Renner A small, sharp Colorado lobbyist and newspaperwoman who becomes Silvia's close friend and helps her search for the truth.
- Mrs. Emma Bell A refined mother who lives with a secret sorrow and wants to earn her own living so her daughter can have a better life.
- Hilda Ramsey The warm, wise elder sister of Jack and Frank, married to a banker, who gives her brothers advice and a loving home.
How it ends (spoiler)
The missing letter is found hidden in a borrowed dictionary and read aloud in court. In it Mrs. Bell names Dr. Orrin Morris as the man who loved her, left her and threatened her. Morris, watched by detectives, swallows poison in the courtroom and dies. The judge discharges Earl without a stain. Leonora is gone, and Earl and Silvia declare their love. Frank wins Carroll, and the couples go on serving their cause.
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What is An American Suffragette about?
It follows Dr. John Earl, a New York physician home from India, who meets the lawyer and suffragist Silvia Holland. A poisoning then puts him on trial, and she must defend him in a packed courtroom.
Who is Silvia Holland in the novel?
She is a rich young lawyer and suffrage leader who pays for her own home, believes in economic independence for women, and becomes the attorney in the murder trial of Dr. Earl.
Is An American Suffragette a true story?
It is a work of fiction, written by Isaac Newton Stevens, who died in 1920. It uses real debates of its time, such as votes for women in Colorado and English militant protests, as its background.
Is An American Suffragette easy to read?
Yes, in the sense that chapters are short, the plot moves from a parade to a mystery to a trial, and the dialogue is lively, with plenty of humor from Frank Earl.
What is the main message of the novel?
Stevens argues that women need the vote and honest work to be free, that new ideas about mind and healing deserve fair testing, and that justice must not follow gossip.
Verwijs naar deze uitgave
Stevens, Isaac Newton. An American Suffragette. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/an-american-suffragette.
Stevens, I. N. (2026). An American suffragette. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/an-american-suffragette (Original work published 1911)
Stevens, Isaac Newton. An American Suffragette. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/an-american-suffragette.
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