{"product_id":"louisine-lights-a-legacy","title":"Louisine Lights a Legacy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe only picture-book biography about the important and influential leader of the suffragist movement: Louisine Havemeyer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn February 1919, Louisine Havemeyer led 100 women to picket in front of the White House. They were suffragists, marching for women's right to vote.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLouisine had been fortunate to grow up in a middle-class family that supported women's education. As she became friends with forward thinkers like the painter Mary Cassatt, Louisine's worldview broadened-and her voice grew louder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Louisine became a wealthy widow, she used her unique position in society to support women's suffrage-staging an art show to fund the cause, making rousing speeches on the campaign trail, and qualifying for Alice Paul's \"Prison Special\" train tour across America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCelebrating an influential suffragist, \u003ci\u003eLouisine Lights a Legacy\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of an unsung trailblazer who forged her own path and brightly fought for her beliefs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBack matter includes bibliography, brief bios of other suffragists: Harriot Stanton Blatch, Hattie Quinn Brown, Frederick Douglass, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Mabel Ping-Hua Lee, Mary Church Terrell, Nina Otero-Warren, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, and Zitkala-Sa.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57524718666101,"sku":"9781419774409","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781419774409.jpg?v=1787742825","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/louisine-lights-a-legacy","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}