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A WOMAN's WORK ~ A Novel ;

The storied life of pioneer Esther Morris, the World's first Female Justice Peace. Although she's been dead for more then one hundred years, Esther Morris has been my kindred spirit since I met her when feminism was revived in the 1970s. I was viewing a slide lecture about little known women history.( We called it "herstory" then)There, in front of the Wyoming state capitol was a statue of a woman striding across the plain carrying a book and sheaf of flowers. The single paragraph beneath Esther Morris's image told me she was six feet tall and had made it possible for women in Wyoming to be first in America to vote- in 1869.She was also the first female justice of the peace in the world. Is that all there is? I Was astounded. I had to find out who she real was and why I was to drown to her. Curiosity soon became obsession, and over the years- before internet made research a bit easier- I tracked even the smallest lead. What little information I found was often contradictory. But the more I learned, the more I liked Esther. In a variety of history books on the American  West and Few about Women, Esther received  a Paragraph or two as possible being involved in the suffrage  struggle in Wyoming Territory. There was a legend that she hosted a tea party at which she extracted promises from the territorial legislators to create a an amendment giving women the right to vote- and own property and receive  equal pay. But this tea party was dismissed for a lack of proof .Yet Esther throughout her life time gave" sociables" for any excuse, so it is quite likely that she would have had such a party not only to promote the cause but to introduce her family to her new neighbors.