Hallo, Hallo dear hearts!
Welcome to my tour stop for “A Suffragette in Time”! For my readers who have been visiting with me over the past eight years, they will remember several years ago I stumbled across Feminist Historical Fiction narratives – many of which centred or featured the Suffragette movements – across continents and sometimes took space in different places of the overall story behind the fight for Women’s Rights, Equality and the hard won path all women took to secure a future which had more freedoms than were given in the past. Through those readings, I came to learn about the ‘bigger names’ in the Women’s Rights movements and the lesser known heroes of the movement as well who played key roles in getting our rights to become part of the mainstream conversations.
I won’t lie – some of those stories were challengingly difficult to read due to the content and the honest depictions the authors chose to highlight of those women’s lives whilst at the same time – it was fittingly right to read those narratives at those points in time as I was shifting my focus in Historical Fiction (away from war dramas) and I wanted to dive more into the heart of Historical Women’s Fiction as much as Feminist Historical Fiction. For awhile I took up residence in those stories, most of which as said were based on historical facts, living persons and events which shaped History from a women’s point of perspective.
Other stories I’ve read over the years, touch on those topics but not with such hard-hitting plot points or lead characters as they are more a rounding of History than a living account of History. Hence, when I saw the name of this book going on tour this month and looked at the plot within it – as I have a penchant for travelling through time – whether directly inside a time travelling narrative or by journeying through different portals of historical reference in the stories I’m reading – time has a trifecta in fiction which keenly interests me as a reader. As you can time travel, shift in time (ie. time shift stories) or you can slip in time as well (ie. time slip stories). Whichever way an author chooses to focus on ‘time’, there is a level of immediate curiosity in me to see how they’ve presented that choice and to see how their vision of featuring time in the background of their story percolates through their character’s journey.
For this blog tour, I had intended to interview the author – however, kindly due to my work schedule and catching a 24 hour flu (which if you’ve ever had one yourself, know the recovery isn’t as quick as it attacks you!) — I was grateful the author had a special guest post I could share in lieu of the conversation I was planning to send over for the tour. This is definitely a story I would like to read in future (in a print edition) and hope this Top Ten List might spark interest in you to pick up the story as well. Especially considering there are many points of interest on her route through History which equally intrigue me to visit as well! So happy someone else wanted to spend time with Jane – I’ll be featuring a lot of lovely reviews and ruminations about Austen this December, too – look for my #Austentide features coming soon!
A Suffragettte in Time
by Connie Lacy
Source: Author via Lola's Blog Tours
Thrown back in time to the 1850s, Sarah Burns transforms herself into a suffragette. But traveling the speaking circuit can be risky in a time when men believe a woman’s place is in the home. It can be downright dangerous when she shares the stage with anti-slavery activists whose fiery rhetoric triggers violence.
Her uneasy alliance with an arrogant abolitionist may be heading toward romance, but it’s a bumpy road with perilous obstacles, including slave hunters intent on kidnapping anyone they can sell down south. Living with a family operating a station on the Underground Railroad doesn’t make life any easier.
A Suffragette in Time is a fast-paced time travel story set against the backdrop of one of the most acrimonious periods in American history, as the fight over slavery escalates toward the American Civil War. Danger, romance and one woman’s personal battle to make the world a better place.
Places to find the book:
ISBN: 978-1737455226
Published by Wild Falls Publishing
on 30th October, 2021
Format: Trade Paperback
Converse on Twitter via: #HistoricalFiction, #HistNov or #HistFic as well as #timetravel
Top Ten times & places I’d like to visit if I could travel back in time
(assuming I would be SAFE, of course)
by Connie Lacy, author of “A Suffragette in Time”
1 – 1935 Madison County, Georgia so I could visit the grandmother I never got to meet, & visit my great-grandparents & see my mother when she was a little girl
2 – 1600 London so I could visit the Globe Theatre to see a Shakespeare play and meet Shakespeare. I’d also like to visit Stratford-upon-Avon to meet his wife, Anne Hathaway Shakespeare, and see what life was really like then
3 – About 2500BC Stonehenge in England so I could witness its construction and speak (through a magical interpreter) to the people building it
4 – 1850s Auburn, New York to meet Harriet Tubman, one of the most successful conductors on the Underground Railroad transporting slaves escaping to freedom in the north
5 – 1796 Steventon, Hampshire, England so I could meet Jane Austen during the most productive writing years of her short life. A tour of the region would also be enjoyable.
6 – 1021 Newfoundland, Canada to say hello to the Vikings as they arrive in North America
7 – 1607 Jamestown, VA, USA so I could meet the real Pocahantas and see life in that area during that time
8 – About 55,000 years ago, somewhere in France so I could meet Neanderthals, perhaps when they were interacting with modern humans
9 – 1910 – 1920 New York City so I could ride the trolleys and see the city
10 – 1849 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania so I could hear women’s rights activist Lucy Stone speak before a meeting of the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society and tour that famous city
This blog tour is courtesy of:
Be sure to click the banner to visit the rest of the tour route!
I enjoy being a hostess for:
NOTE: Similar to blog tours wherein I feature book reviews, book spotlights (with or without extracts), book announcements (or Cover Reveals) – I may elect to feature an author, editor, narrator, publisher or other creative person connected to the book, audiobook, Indie film project or otherwise creative publishing medium being featured wherein the supplemental content on my blog is never compensated monetarily nor am I ever obligated to feature this kind of content. I provide (98.5%) of all questions and guest topics regularly featured on Jorie Loves A Story. I receive direct responses back to those enquiries by publicists, literary agents, authors, blog tour companies, etc of whom I am working with to bring these supplemental features and showcases to my blog. I am naturally curious about the ‘behind-the-scenes’ of stories and the writers who pen them: I have a heap of joy bringing this content to my readers. Whenever there is a conflict of connection I do disclose those connections per post and disclose the connection as it applies.
{Sources: Book Cover for “A Suffragette in Time” and “, synopsis, author biography and photograph (of Connie Lacy), the extract from “A Suffragette in Time”, blog tour banner and host badge were provided by Lola’s Blog Tours and are being used with permission. Post dividers by Fun Stuff for Your Blog via Pure Imagination. Tweets were embedded due to codes provided by Twitter. Blog graphics created by Jorie via Canva: Guest Feature banner, #MyYASummer banner as well as the Comment Box Banner.}
Copyright © Jorie Loves A Story, 2021.
Leave a Reply