Overview

Set in the spring of 1916 in the fictional upstate city of Whitewater, The Sturdy Oak is a collaborative novel that uses satire to examine gender roles and municipal power. Idealistic reformers confront a ruthless political machine while the narrative follows George and Genevieve Remington amid the New York suffrage campaign.

Written in a parlor-game style—one author beginning a scene and another continuing—the book traces the slow transformation of a confirmed anti-suffragist into a supporter of voting rights. Contributions from leading writers of the day, including Fannie Hurst, Dorothy Canfield, and Kathleen Norris, give the work a variety of tones and perspectives.

Readers interested in early-20th-century American politics, women's history, and literary collaboration will find a compact, historically rooted satire that balances social critique with human drama.

• Satire of the 1916 New York suffrage campaign
• Composite-novel structure with multiple contributors
• Themes: gender roles, reform, political machines

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