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Chapters 1-11

· The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Barnhill, Kelly. When Women Were Dragons. Doubleday, 2022 Hardcover.

· When Women Were Dragons is narrated by Alex Green, a “physicist, professor, activist . . . human” (1) as a sort of memoir.

· Information from documents she used for her research is inserted as unnumbered chapters.

· The novel begins with a letter from Marya Tilman, a housewife from Lincoln, Nebraska, and the earliest confirmed dragoning in the U.S. before the Mass Dragoning of 1955 or the Day of Missing Mothers.

· She transformed on September 18, 1898, while there was a party at her next-door neighbor’s garden.

· There was a daguerreotype taken of the dragoning at midpoint.

· Even though all witnesses signed affidavits, local or national newspapers did not cover the story, and authorities suppressed the case.

· Scientists, journalists, or researchers who asked questions about the Tilman case were fired or...

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