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MacPherson's book, The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage and Scandal in the Gilded Age (Hachette, 2014; paperback 2015) exposes Victorian hypocrisy on sex and women through the true story of two feminist sisters who broke all the rules in 1870 and fought for rights still denied women. "MacPherson's enchanting dual biography…the epilogue "hammers ...
Leah Hirsig (April 9, 1883 – February 22, 1975) was an American schoolteacher [1] and occultist, notable for her magical record diary, The Magical Record of the Scarlet Woman, which describes her experiences and visions as an associate, friend, and victim [1] of occult writer Aleister Crowley.
Scarlet Sister Mary is set among the Gullah people of the Low Country in South Carolina. The date never is established, but it appears to be around the beginning of the 20th century. The title character, Mary, was an orphan on an abandoned plantation who was raised by Auntie Maum Hannah and her crippled son Budda Ben.
The scarlet sisters : sex, suffrage, and scandal in the Gilded Age (First ed.). New York, NY: Twelve. ISBN 9780446570237. LCCN 2013027618. biography of Victoria Woodhull and Tennessee Celeste Claflin; Shone, Steve J. (2019). "The Seductiveness of Tennie C. Claflin and of Her Ideas". Women of Liberty. Studies in Critical Social Sciences.
Sister Helen Prejean is probably not the archetype that comes to mind when you think of a nun, yet she is probably the country's best-known living Catholic layperson, famous for her anti–death ...
Julia Peterkin (October 31, 1880 – August 10, 1961) was an American author from South Carolina. In 1929 she won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel Scarlet Sister Mary. She wrote several novels about the plantation South, especially the Gullah people of the Lowcountry.
The Two Sisters (1926) Catherine Foster (1929) Charlotte's Row (1931) The Fallow Land (1932) The Poacher (1935) A House of Women (1936) Spella Ho (1938) Fair Stood the Wind for France (1944) The Cruise of the Breadwinner (1946) The Purple Plain (1947) Dear Life (1949) The Jacaranda Tree (1949) The Scarlet Sword (1950) The Grass God (1951) Love ...
Mary Pat Gleason (February 23, 1950 [citation needed] – June 2, 2020) was an American film and television actress and an Emmy Award-winning writer.From 1983 to 1985, she appeared as "Jane Hogan" on the daytime soap opera Guiding Light, for which she was also a writer.