At the age of 35, nothing was really going on in her life. “Constance was really a misfit,” Stewart points out, as she explains what first drew her to the Kopps. These first, startling lessons prove to be the start of a long career in law enforcement for Constance – the oldest sister and Stewart’s narrator – who went on to become one of the first female deputy sheriffs in the USA. In response, the town sheriff fits the women out with guns and teaches them how to shoot. When Constance, Norma and Fleurette’s buggy is upturned thanks to some unconscionably bad driving on the part of a local silk merchant, it is an incident that has unlikely consequences. The driver refuses to pay for the damage caused and instead starts terrorising the sisters, who see bricks thrown through their windows, kidnapping threats and arson attempts. And so it is a joy to come across a series of books which follows three sisters as they live and work together – all the more so given that Constance, Norma and Fleurette Kopp were real people whose lives played out in the early years of the 20th century, as the first tentative steps towards women’s rights were being taken.Īmy Stewart’s first book about the Kopp sisters, Girl Waits With Gun, appeared in the UK in 2016 and transports the reader to New Jersey in 1914, to a small town as yet seemingly unruffled by the onset of war across the Atlantic. It is this cocktail of stubborn loyalty, heady admiration and more than occasional frustration which made sisterhood into one of the leading metaphors behind the feminist movement.
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