A Radical Suffragist in Washington, D.C.

Shirley Marshall is a social history researcher extraordinaire and a management consultant. Her collection of eighteenth- to twentieth-century correspondence proves both the complexity and the repetitiveness of history. An air force veteran, Shirley earned a JD from the UVA School of Law and worked in social services. Inheriting Elizabeth Handy's papers led to a decades-long odyssey, exploring a full and complex life. Elizabeth's writings include her time in Washington, D.C., in California's Sonoran Desert and in Peking (Beijing) during the Chinese civil war. Other than writing, Shirley advises nonprofit clients, travels at every opportunity and tends her almost-native overgrown garden. www.elizabethsbook.com.