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Book Review
| Inez: The Life and Times of Inez Milholland. By Linda J. Lumsden. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. xiv, 265 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-253-34418-2.)
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| Born to wealth and the elite levels of New York and London society, Inez Milholland was a committed suffragist by her senior year at Vassar College. After graduation, she enrolled in New York University's law school, passed the bar in 1912, and devoted her practice to divorce and criminal cases. Adulated as a great beauty in the popular press, she faced criticism as well from those who, often justifiably, felt upstaged by her easy dominance of media attention. But she worked hard, too, for a number of Progressive reforms, including woman suffrage, the rights of women workers, and the peace movement. She helped to prevent the execution of a retarded man and served, not altogether successfully, as a war correspondent in Italy. |
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