Crosshatch: Martha Schofield, the Forgotten Feminist (1839–1916)

Praise for Crosshatch: Martha Schofield, the Forgotten Feminist (1839–1916) [icon name=”quote-left” prefix=”fas”] What makes, of our lives, a story? What stories are ours to write? These questions pulse across the pages of Crosshatch, a book of history and memoir, research and quest – a book, in other words, of gleaming mirrors. In the able hands of historian Christina Larocco, the feminist Martha Schofield emerges as a complex character, and also a complicated one – a perfect foil for our deeply complicated times and a brilliant companion for Larocco’s own most elegant mind. — Beth Kephart, My Life in Paper: Adventures in Ephemera [icon name=”quote-left” prefix=”fas”] Crosshatch is a thoughtful blend of biography and personal essay, and a journey of revisiting well-known US history – this time through the eyes of a woman. Historian Christina Larocco’s care for the stories of women, often buried and ignored, is obvious in her treatment of Martha Schofield. Bringing to life the story of this lesser-known feminist in parallel to examining her own personal history, Christina interrogates how the past and present affect each other. Hers is a precise, sharp, and witty voice illuminating that history is made while we live out our everyday lives. — Janna Marlies Maron, Nonfiction Book Coach, Editor & Publisher of Under the Gum Tree