Scandalous Women: The Lives and Loves of History's Most Notorious Women by Elizabeth Kerri Mahon

Author:Elizabeth Kerri Mahon [Mahon, Elizabeth Kerri]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Social Sciences, Biography & Autobiography, Women's Studies
ISBN: 978-0399536458
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2014-10-16T04:00:00+00:00

Carry Nation

1846-1911

Truly does the saloon make a woman bare of all things.

—CARRY NATION

Both repellent and fascinating, this hatchet-swinging, Bible-thumping, God-appointed vigilante swung through Midwestern saloons, smashing glass with shrieks of triumph, like an early-twentieth-century “Dirty Harriet.” This self-proclaimed “bull-dog running along at the feet of Jesus” objected not just to drink but also to smoking, the Masons, risqué art, and ostentatious fashion. She took particular delight in assailing people and institutions; not even the office of the President was safe from Carry Nation. Her detractors considered her to be a puritanical killjoy, while her supporters considered her to be a second John Brown. “Savage” and “unsexed” were just some of the words used to describe this grandmotherly woman who stood almost six feet tall. But for Carry Nation, the crusade was intensely personal. She’d seen up close the damage that drink could do.

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