Women's Crusader

<p><strong>A true story of love loss and the pioneering fight for women's education in America.</strong></p><p>Catharine (Kate) Beecher was a crusader for women's education bestselling author and unique feminist thinker in the nineteenth century. Yet many today have never even heard of her. Kate's fame was eclipsed by that of her younger sister abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe.</p><p><em>Women's Crusader </em>reveals the untold tale of romance and grief that launched Kate on a new path as an advocate for American women. Biographer R. Lee Wilson combed through unpublished letters manuscripts and diary entries to discover the secrets of Kate and Alexander Fisher an unlikely couple. Kate <span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>was a fun-loving extrovert while Alexander was an introverted math prodigy and brilliant Yale professor. But they were brought together by a piece of her published poetry and their joint love for music. After a tragic shipwreck tore them apart Kate's life dramatically shifted focus. She waged a battle against </span>misogyny to help provide women with the education they deserved. Compelling and meticulously researched <em>Women's Crusader</em> is the inspiring turning-point story of an important yet little-known woman in US history.</p>