Martha And Hanwel

From the winner of the Bancroft Prize and the Francis Parkman Prize in History—a lost episode rediscovered after almost two hundred years; a thwarted love triangle of heartbreak—two men and a woman of equal ambition, that exploded in scandal and investigation, set between America's Revolution and its Civil War, revealing an age in subtle and powerful transformation, caught between the fight for women's rights and the campaign waged by evangelical Protestants to dominate the nation's culture and politics.

From the intimate perspective of three friends and neighbors in mid-nineteenth century Auburn, New York—the "agitators" of the title—acclaimed author Dorothy Wickenden tells the fascinating and crucially American stories of abolition, the underground railroad, the early women's rights movement, and the Civil War.