The Scarlet Sisters (63 page)

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Contents

1. Cover
   
2. Title Page
   
3. Welcome
   
4. Dedication
   
5. Cast of Characters
   
6. Introducing Two Improper Victorians
   
7. Opening Scene: Arriving
   
8. ACT ONE
   
   1. Chapter One: Vicky
      
   2. Chapter Two: Tennie
      
9. ACT TWO
   
   1. Chapter Three: Wall Street Warriors
      
   2. Chapter Four: The Bewitching Brokers
      
   3. Chapter Five:
      Woodhull & Claflin’s Weekly
      
   4. Chapter Six: “Madam, you are not a citizen, you are a woman!”
      
   5. Chapter Seven: Free Love, Suffrage, and Abolition
      
   6. Chapter Eight: All in the Family: “Never a wholly sane mother”
      
   7. Chapter Nine: Sex and the City, circa 1871
      
10. ACT THREE
    
    1. Chapter Ten: Confessions of Sin and Battling the Beechers
       
    2. Chapter Eleven: “Yes, I am a free lover!”
       
    3. Chapter Twelve: From Spirit Ghosts to Karl Marx
       
    4. Chapter Thirteen: Being Tennie
       
    5. Chapter Fourteen: Future Presidentess
       
11. ACT FOUR
    
    1. Chapter Fifteen: Down and Out in Manhattan
       
    2. Chapter Sixteen: Unmasking Beecher and a Masked Ball Rape
       
    3. Chapter Seventeen: Jailbirds and the Naked Truth
       
    4. Chapter Eighteen: Life and Death
       
    5. Chapter Nineteen: Panic and Victory
       
    6. Chapter Twenty: The Star Chamber
       
    7. Chapter Twenty-One: Wickedness in High Places
       
    8. Chapter Twenty-Two: Beecher’s Revenge
       
12. ACT FIVE
    
    1. Chapter Twenty-Three: The Siege of London
       
    2. Chapter Twenty-Four: Lady Cook
       
    3. Chapter Twenty-Five: Love and Libel
       
    4. Chapter Twenty-Six: Widows
       
    5. Chapter Twenty-Seven: Moving On
       
    6. Chapter Twenty-Eight: Last Acts
       
13. Epilogue: Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
    
14. Photos
    
15. Bibliography
    
16. Acknowledgments
    
17. About the Author
    
18. Other Books by Myra MacPherson
    
19. Acclaim for
    The Scarlet Sisters
    
20. Notes
    
21. Newsletters
    
22. Copyright
    

Copyright

Copyright © 2014 by Myra MacPherson

Cover design by Drew Melton

Cover photos © Everett Collection Inc / Alamy

Cover copyright © 2014 by Hachette Book Group, Inc.

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