Rouse’s Public Faces, Secret Lives is exactly as advertised in the subtitle: it is a thorough, well-researched, and informative overview of the active and central role lesbians and other queer persons played in the women’s suffrage movement. In some cases, Rouse brings attention to lesser-known individuals; in others, she highlights relationships among well-known figures that have not always been clear in histories of women’s suffrage. The book is published by an academic press and thus perhaps tends toward academic jargon, and occasionally tries too hard to establish the exact nature of the relationship between certain women via archival material such as correspondence or other writings (there are a lot of heartfelt poems!), but it is a valuable and interesting contribution to a more complete account of the suffrage movement.