THE SOCIETY REVIEWS: Jennifer Chiaverini's THE WOMEN'S MARCH

Jennifer Chiaverini has crafted novels about historical women as diverse as First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln and mathematician Ada Lovelace. Her newly published The Women’s March revolves around not one but three extraordinary leaders of the American women's suffrage movement. 

In the novel, the trajectories of Alice Paul, Maud Malone, and Ida B. Wells come together during the planning for and execution of the March 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession. Said to be the first political march on Washington, the Procession—scheduled for Washington D.C. the day before the inauguration of Woodrow Wilson—required massive organizational effort. It also highlighted tensions between different visions of the suffrage cause, some related to issues of race and class still capable of dividing feminists today. 

Chiaverini’s deeply researched novel depicts all of this and more, delivering a complex picture of an extraordinary historical moment and the equally extraordinary women that made it possible. In addition to its portraits of Paul, Malone, and Wells among others, The Women's March is a gripping and inspirational vision of activism in action. 

Published by William Morrow on July 27, 2021, The Women's March is available on platforms including Amazon.com, Bookshop.org, and your local bookstore.