Chapter I: Front Matter

AN AMERICAN SUFFRAGETTE

A NOVEL By ISAAC N. STEVENS

Author of "The Liberators," "Popular Government Essays," etc.

New York William Rickey & Company 1911

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Copyright, 1911, by William Rickey & Company

Registered at Stationers' Hall, London (All Rights Reserved)

Printed in the United States of America

PRESS OF WILLIAM G. HEWITT, 61-67 NAVY ST., BROOKLYN, N. Y.

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DEDICATION

To those noble and courageous women of England and America who are trying to demonstrate to the world that Civilization cannot reach the supreme heights of progress without giving freedom to the mental, spiritual and physical energies of women, and that government will always lack a vital element in its functions, so long as women are deprived of equal participation in its operations--THIS BOOK IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR.

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"But life shall on and upward go;
Th' eternal step of Progress beats
To that great anthem, calm and slow,
Which God repeats."

--Whittier.

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. A DOCTOR RETURNS FROM INDIA 1
II. A MYSTICAL PARADE 15
III. THE MYSTERIOUS YOUNG WOMAN 22
IV. A SUFFRAGE BAZAAR AND BALL 33
V. HYPNOTISM USED FOR AN ANAESTHETIC 46
VI. SOME STRENUOUS ANTI-SUFFRAGISTS 56
VII. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AND SURGERY 61
VIII. THE OMNIPRESENT EYES OF FIFTH AVENUE 74
IX. LOVE, JEALOUSY AND MUSIC 82
X. A DISCUSSION OF PROGRESSIVE WOMEN 91
XI. THE ADVANCING COLUMN OF DEMOCRACY 99
XII. A TUBERCULAR KNEE AND A WORRIED SURGEON 117
XIII. AN ANTI-SUFFRAGE MEETING 125
XIV. FAITH IS THE BASIS OF ALL PROGRESS 140
XV. AN EVIL PROPHECY BEGINS TO BEAR FRUIT 154
XVI. THE MYSTERIOUS MURDER OF EMMA BELL 164
XVII. THE ARREST OF DR. JOHN EARL 180
XVIII. DR. EARL IS INDICTED FOR MURDER 194
XIX. A GREAT MURDER TRIAL BEGINS 199
XX. A WOMAN AND SPOOKS FIND A LETTER 211
XXI. SILVIA HOLLAND'S GREAT PLEA TO THE JURY 225

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AN AMERICAN SUFFRAGETTE