Leaving Coy's Hill

Oh my gosh, I loved this book. Lucy Stone is an early feminist and abolitionist, and Leaving Coy’s Hill is her story. She’s born on a farm in the early 1800s and has dreams beyond what girls are typically allowed at the time, including a continuing education. When Lucy learns that she will have even......more

This is a fascinating story of Lucy Stone, pioneering feminist and abolitionist. Lucy Stone grew up on a farm. As much as she loved it, she saw how limited women’s rights were even though they worked as hard as men. Something she witnesses makes her go to a retired judge and ask for explanation of t......more

Immersive, insightful, and exceptionally inspiring! Leaving Coy’s Hill is a powerful, alluring, enlightening interpretation that sweeps you away to the American East in the mid 1800s and into the life of Lucy Stone an independent, intelligent, woman ahead of her time who after becoming the first woma......more

Leaving Coy’s Hill is a highly compelling fictional account of the life of Lucy Stone, an orator, abolitionist and suffragist. I’m ashamed to admit I’d never heard of Lucy Stone before, who is not as famous as her contemporaries in the suffrage movement, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton,......more