Helpful Score: 5
This book is about the relationship between Harriet and her younger sister, Isabella, and the falling out of their relationship over their brother, Henry's, adultery trial. Apparently this was a very public trial at the time, and while Harriet sided with her brother, Isabella publicly questioned his innocence. Because of that, she became an outcast to the Beecher family. Isabella (who I had never heard of) was very involved in the women's suffrage movement along with Susan B. Anthony. What was amazing to me when I read this book was how Harriet, who was so involved in the abolitionist movement against slavery, was very much against her sister's involvement in the women's suffrage movement. I learned more about pieces of American history than I had expected reading this book, and it left me intrigued to read more.
