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Can these two words even be in the same sentence? It seems they can, and if you are just a bit of an average woman, you will understand how Forbes created a story about a girl that can carry the two labels. The story of Penelope Stanton is told with a humorous language, and you can't but admire Penelope’s cynicism over her destiny as she becomes an ineligible bachelorette once she nears a certain age, once her engagement is broken and once her dad’s fortune upon which the whole family relies on is lost due to the pre-Grand Depression crisis.

Despite the zing of humor, I didn’t find the story very funny, especially in the way she has to manage the inappropriate advances of the married Edgar Daggers who is insisting on her becoming his mistress. There is quite a bit of insidious and more open violence in the way he acts towards her. The fact that he decorates his aggression with “sweet romantic words” makes him even more unlikable and places a dark veil over Penelope’s lust struggles. However, Edgar’s presence in the book is just a reflection of a larger truth for her life as a suffragette when her she leaves her family and goes to live in the large city. She becomes a key actress in the suffragette movement as it shapes history taking a large wave parallel with her destiny.

The book gives a disillusioned but not overly dark view of women’s history. Glad I got it!


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Mistress Suffragette edition by Diana Forbes Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews

The jilted 17-year-old Penelope describes the process of finding a husband as akin to an invisible gun pressed to her head. Her family is going through hard times financial, and she takes on the job of a tutor to help them while her parents try to sell her (and her younger sister) off to potential suitors to better their own position. Meanwhile, Mr. Daggers, a married jerk who wants her to be his mistress enters the picture and schemes against her to get what he wants.

With the help of her friend, Lucinda, Penelope runs away from the machinations of her family and Mr. Daggers to Boston where they join the local suffragette movement. I liked the diversity of the suffragettes, though many stereotypes were also present, such as the lesbian/bisexual and man-hater, whereas Penelope represents the more moderate, less stereotyped suffragette.

I did not understand her attraction to (and affair with) Mr. Daggers later in the novel at all. Not only did it make no sense to me logically, but I felt like it side-tracked from the rest of the compelling story. The whole “though he betrayed me, he’d also loved me in a way that no man had...” and the fact that he was violent, but she “still craved the validation of his love” made me want to throw the book in a fire. I came to dislike the main character over time because of this.

I loved all the historical references to the Movement, the National Woman Suffrage Association in New York, and the New England Women’s Club in Boston (although the author does incorrectly call it the New England’s Women Club and the New England Woman’s Club a couple of times). I liked that there were nods to various lecturers and members (including both men and women) and the variety of topics that the suffragette Movement attempted to tackle (from irrational undergarments to voting rights). It was interesting (and a bit depressing) to see how many of the same issues women still struggle with today.
The author does a great job of bringing the 1890s to life. Her writing is descriptive , understandable and is realistic. We meet Penelope at the ball after being dumped by her fiancée due to her family's economic hardships. It immediately  makes the reader feel compassion for her. The characters were well developed although not always likable. There were too many characters to touch on everyone but I will mention a few. Penelope's father was so depressed he was withdrawn from his family and idly stood by while her mother made most decisions. I didn't like Penelope's mother, she attested to the motto of image is everything and would have allowed her daughter to enter into a toxic relationship just to maintain her lifestyle. I liked Penelope's sister, Lydia and felt heart broken that at 15, she was being forced to choose marriage to save her family.
It is easy to forget in this modern age, how in that historical time period, women had little rights. How after puberty, a girl was considered to be a woman old enough to marry. At 20+,  if not married a woman is relegated to be a spinster. The story pace was fast and the story kept me guessing what would happen next. There were a few times when I wanted to shake Penelope to wake her up because what she and Daggers had wasn't love. I liked the growth that Penelope experienced in working with the suffrage movement. Overall, I would recommend it to anyone who loves coming of age tales mixed with romance and history.
Can these two words even be in the same sentence? It seems they can, and if you are just a bit of an average woman, you will understand how Forbes created a story about a girl that can carry the two labels. The story of Penelope Stanton is told with a humorous language, and you can't but admire Penelope’s cynicism over her destiny as she becomes an ineligible bachelorette once she nears a certain age, once her engagement is broken and once her dad’s fortune upon which the whole family relies on is lost due to the pre-Grand Depression crisis.

Despite the zing of humor, I didn’t find the story very funny, especially in the way she has to manage the inappropriate advances of the married Edgar Daggers who is insisting on her becoming his mistress. There is quite a bit of insidious and more open violence in the way he acts towards her. The fact that he decorates his aggression with “sweet romantic words” makes him even more unlikable and places a dark veil over Penelope’s lust struggles. However, Edgar’s presence in the book is just a reflection of a larger truth for her life as a suffragette when her she leaves her family and goes to live in the large city. She becomes a key actress in the suffragette movement as it shapes history taking a large wave parallel with her destiny.

The book gives a disillusioned but not overly dark view of women’s history. Glad I got it!