The Cure for Dreaming
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Authors: Cat Winters
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
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Winters, Cat.
The cure for dreaming / by Cat Winters.
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Summary: In Portland, Oregon, in 1900, seventeen-year-old Olivia Mead, a suffragist, is hypnotized by the intriguing young Henri Reverie, who is paid by her father to make her more docile and womanly but who, instead, gives her the ability to see people's true natures, while she secretly continues fighting for women's rights. Includes timeline and historical photographs.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-1-4197-1216-6 (hardback)
[1. SupernaturalâFiction. 2. SuffragistsâFiction. 3. HypnotismâFiction. 4. Fathers and daughtersâFiction. 5. Portland (Or.)âHistoryâ20th centuryâFiction.] I. Title.
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2014012019
Text copyright © 2014 Catherine Karp
Book design by Maria T. Middleton
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For Carrie,
MY SISTER AND LIFELONG BEST FRIEND.
KEEP SHINING.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE: A CHARMED INDIVIDUAL
CHAPTER TWO: WOMANHOOD PERFECTED
CHAPTER THREE: UNLADYLIKE DREAMS
CHAPTER FIVE: THE WORLD THE WAY IT TRULY IS
CHAPTER NINE: DEAR, DARLING DAUGHTER
CHAPTER TEN: “EYES UNCLEAN AND FULL OF HELL-FIRE”
CHAPTER TWELVE: YELLOW-RIBBON GIRLS
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: PERCY'S TEETH
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: A RESPONSIBLE WOMAN
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: ALL IS NOT WELL
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: THE WHITEHEAD GAG
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: VILE SUFFRAGE
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: TRANSGRESSIONS
CHAPTER TWENTY: DES PARTENAIRES QUI S'EMBRASSENT
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: INNER WORKINGS
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: THE LOWEST FLAME
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: ELECTION DAY
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: A REMEDY FOR REVERIES
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: A QUIET VIGIL
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN: AWAKE UNTO ME
WHEN AND WHERE U.S. WOMEN GAINED FULL SUFFRAGE
PORTLAND, OREGONâOCTOBER 31, 1900
he Metropolitan Theater simmered with the heat of more than a thousand bodies packed together in red velvet chairs. My nose itched from the lingering scent of cigarette smoke wafting off the gentlemen's coatsâa burning odor that added to the sensation that we were all seated inside a beautiful oven, waiting to be broiled. Even the cloud of warring perfumes hanging over the audience smelled overcooked, like toast gone crisp and black.