Publisher: Harper
Date of publication: March 2016
In the spirit of The Paris Wife and Loving
Frank, the provocative and compelling story of one of the most fascinating
and influential figures of the twentieth century: Margaret Sanger, the founder
of Planned Parenthood—an indomitable woman who, more than any other, and at
great personal cost, shaped the sexual landscape we inhabit today.
The daughter of a hard-drinking, smooth-tongued free thinker
and a mother worn down by thirteen children, Margaret Sanger vowed her life
would be different. Trained as a nurse, she fought for social justice beside
labor organizers, anarchists, socialists, and other progressives, eventually
channeling her energy to one singular cause: legalizing contraception. It was a
battle that would pit her against puritanical, patriarchal lawmakers, send her
to prison again and again, force her to flee to England, and ultimately change
the lives of women across the country and around the world.
This complex enigmatic revolutionary was at once vain and
charismatic, generous and ruthless, sexually impulsive and coolly calculating—a
competitive, self-centered woman who championed all women, a conflicted mother
who suffered the worst tragedy a parent can experience. From opening the first
illegal birth control clinic in America in 1916 through the founding of Planned
Parenthood to the arrival of the Pill in the 1960s, Margaret Sanger sacrificed
two husbands, three children, and scores of lovers in her fight for sexual
equality and freedom.
With cameos by such legendary figures as Emma Goldman, John
Reed, Big Bill Haywood, H. G. Wells, and the love of Margaret’s life, Havelock Ellis,
this richly imagined portrait of a larger-than-life woman is at once
sympathetic to her suffering and unsparing of her faults. Deeply insightful, Terrible
Virtue is Margaret Sanger’s story as she herself might have told it.
About Ellen Feldman
Ellen Feldman, a 2009 Guggenheim Fellow, is the author of
five previous novels, including Scottsboro, which was shortlisted
for the Orange Prize for Fiction, andNext to Love. She lives in New York
City.
For more information on Ellen and her work, please visit her
website, www.ellenfeldman.com.
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