page_title: Oreola Williams Haskell
section_title: Book
hierarchical_section_title: Oreola Williams Haskell / Works / Book
caption_attribution_description: English: Oreola Williams Haskell's Novel, Banner Bearers.
context_page_description: Oreola Williams Haskell was an American activist for suffrage, author, and poet in the early twentieth century.
context_section_description: Banner Bearers: tales of the Suffrage Campaigns, with an introduction by Ida Husted Harper (Geneva, N.Y.: W. F. Humphrey, 1920)
  As a fictional work that exemplified the modernist literary movement of the time, Banner Bearers was possibly the first epistolary style novel in suffrage literature. The novel was inspired by the suffrage referenda in New York between 1915 and 1917, and its depictions of that time have been praised and credited by suffragists as greatly influential in the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment. The twenty-two different yet related voices in the novel provide a more complex, diverse representation of suffragist voices, making it a more mature depiction of the successes and failures of the suffrage movement.
  Haskell modeled many of the twenty-two characters on actual suffragists, and as the Daily Brooklyn Eagle revealed in its review of the book, the true identities may have been obvious to contemporaries of the novel (which suggests the book was possibly meant to be an inside joke). According to the article, the stories and corresponding identities are as follows:
  "Mrs. Rensling Takes a Rest" - Mrs. George Notman
  "Tenements and Teacups" - Mrs. Emilie Lockwood
  "A Musical Martyr" - Mrs. Anna Ross Weeks
  "Sizing Up a Boss" - Mary Garrett Hay (known affectionately as "boss")
  "The Heart of a Chief" - Carrie Chapman Catt.
  Other identities revealed in the article that are not accompanied by story title are: Mrs. Norman de B. Whitehouse, Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, Mrs. F. Louis Slade (Mrs. Caroline McCormick Slade), Mrs. Charles L. Tiffany, and Miss Rose Schneidermann.
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