Her Hat Was in the Ring!

U.S.Women Who Ran for Political Office Before 1920

		Belva A. Lockwood	Jeannette Rankin	Anne Martin

		The Co-Citizens, by Corra Harris was published in 1915. In Jordantown, a small, Southern community, Sarah Hayden Mosely dies and leaves her large fortune and controlling interest in local businesses and the newspaper to the politically active women of her community. In her will Mosely selects Susan Walton, an old suffrage campaigner, Selah Adams, a young woman in the community, and Judge John Regis to spend her money to gain municipal suffrage for the women on Jordantown. The full text of this book is available on Google Books.
		Corra Harris was a prolific writer on Southern themes in the first years of the twentieth century. This novel reveals her ambiguous support of woman suffrage.

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