Readers of Unmentionables know her as Dorothy Holland. But by the beginning of All to Pieces, she's become Dorothy Askew. She and William have married and set up house in Chicago while they await the end of the war.
Dorothy plays a peripheral role in All to Pieces. Cato takes the money he and Jimmy got from Erastus and leaves it with her to keep it safe for them while they're gone. She continues her role as a correspondent. Eventually, she becomes a bridge for the written communications between Cato and Jimmy and Erastus who are scattered about the country.
Dorothy also continues to feel strongly about social matters. She's an ardent abolitionist. She is destined to play a role in the women's suffrage movement that began with women abolitionists in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York. Neither slaves nor women had the right to vote at the time of this story. But it wasn't until after the Civil War that the question of suffrage was taken up by society in earnest. By 1870 black males were guaranteed the right to vote with the ratification of the 15th Amendment. But not women!
This photograph captures many of the qualities I ascribe to Dorothy: beauty, patience, a mixture of delicacy and strength, and a questioning mind.
Dorothy plays a peripheral role in All to Pieces. Cato takes the money he and Jimmy got from Erastus and leaves it with her to keep it safe for them while they're gone. She continues her role as a correspondent. Eventually, she becomes a bridge for the written communications between Cato and Jimmy and Erastus who are scattered about the country.
Dorothy also continues to feel strongly about social matters. She's an ardent abolitionist. She is destined to play a role in the women's suffrage movement that began with women abolitionists in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York. Neither slaves nor women had the right to vote at the time of this story. But it wasn't until after the Civil War that the question of suffrage was taken up by society in earnest. By 1870 black males were guaranteed the right to vote with the ratification of the 15th Amendment. But not women!
This photograph captures many of the qualities I ascribe to Dorothy: beauty, patience, a mixture of delicacy and strength, and a questioning mind.