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This Q&A with the authors featured in the short-story anthology A Tyranny of Petticoats will provide insight into both the creative process of writing and the historical perspectives and events upon which many of the stories were based.

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A Tyranny of Petticoats
A Tyranny of Petticoats
By Jessica Spotswood, Editor

Crisscross America — on dogsleds and ships, stagecoaches and trains — from pirate ships off the coast of the Carolinas to the peace, love, and protests of 1960s Chicago. Join fifteen of today’s most talented writers of young adult literature on a thrill ride through history with American girls charting their own course. They are monsters and mediums, bodyguards and barkeeps, screenwriters and schoolteachers, heiresses and hobos. They're making their own way in often-hostile lands, using every weapon in their arsenals, facing down murderers and marriage proposals. And they all have a story to tell.

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