Anthony Amendment is throwing the Tennessee legislature into a tizzy. Bedraggled and lost in the big city, she is befriended by a ten-year-old black girl named Myrtle together, they track Violet's sister from the New York settlement house where she had been working, to Washington, to Nashville, where the vote to ratify the Susan B. In her anger, Violet runs away to join her sister in New York. Eleven-year-old Violet Mayhew is furious when she discovers that her mother has been intercepting Violet's letters from her older sister, Chloe Chloe was kicked out of their house three years ago for her radical ideas about socialism and women's suffrage, and she used her hope-chest money to buy a Model T instead of those indispensable items a proper girl needs to set up housekeeping.
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