description: Democracy (1878) reflects Adams's accumulated disgusts with American politics under Grand and Hayes. The career of its attractive heroine, Mrs. Lightfoot Lee, who is based upon Adams's wife, dramatizes one of the novel's major themes, the role of women in politics in the days before women's suffrage. Esther (1884) deals with the dilemma of a woman who must choose between marrying an Episcopalian minister and adopting her fiance's religion or adhering to her intellectual skepticism and denying her emotions. The story is told against the then intense conflict between religion and science.
language: English
title: Democracy and Esther: Two Novels
titlecomplete: Democracy and Esther: Two Novels
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Peter Smith Pub Inc