Women's Crusader

A true story of love, loss, and the pioneering fight for women's education in America. Catharine (Kate) Beecher was a crusader for women's education, bestselling author, and unique feminist thinker in the nineteenth century. Yet many today have never even heard of her. Kate's fame was eclipsed by that of her younger sister, abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe. Women's Crusader reveals the untold tale of romance and grief that launched Kate on a new path as an advocate for American women. Biograph