In the Company of Like-Minded Women by Elaine Russell

Lida is the middle one of three sisters.  She fell in love and wanted to marry.  Her parents forbid it, so she left home and moved away and married.  She now lives in Denver.  When her estranged older sister suggests they come visit for a while, she's excited to see them again.  She's always gotten along with her younger sister but her older one is bit like a stick in mud and shares her mother's beliefs.  It's not easy getting along for the older two after so long.  But things change...

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Women are trying to attain voting rights and the temperance movement is well underway.  Lida's husband died and she's lost a child, too.  She decides to be active in the women's right to vote movement.  Her oldest sister is on the other side of the argument (just explain your thoughts to your husband and let him vote for you).  Mildred is hardcore temperance and wants to stop drinking.  Lida thinks a drink or two relax after working all day (as her husband did) is OK.  Just don't overdo.  The youngest sister, Eva, takes after Lida.  But she has her own problems.  She's in love with another "unsuitable" suitor.  That's why they drug her off to Denver.  She loves him and she's not willing to give him up.

This is an interesting read.  The sisters have their differences.  The older one finds her thoughts on life changing and she's more sympathetic to her sister's cause.  She also begins to see her mother's flaws and finds she still loves her husband after all.  The changes are most apparent in Mildred but the others change in small ways, too.  I enjoyed the ending.  Did you?