Bookworm #77 – Author Conversation with Kimberly Hamlin “Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrage, and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener”

Join us later this month over Zoom for a discussion with Kimberly Hamlin regarding her most recent book, Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrage, and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener. Hamlin will share the fascinating story of the Gardner, a “fallen woman” who reinvented herself and became “the most potent factor” in Congressional passage of the Nineteenth Amendment and the highest-ranking woman in federal government.

During this conversation, Hamlin will explore the ways in which racism impacted the women’s movement, exploring the reality that it wasn’t until 1965 that all women truly had the right to vote.