Railroaded: The Alice Flagler Story

In America’s Gilded Age, Ida Alice Shourds Flagler was building a legacy alongside her oil-magnate husband, Henry Flagler, until he used his immense power to erase her. Labeled insane and forcibly divorced, Alice was sent to a sanitarium for the final three decades of her life. This historical narrative traces her journey from a difficult childhood and a scandalous rise in New York society to her eventual confinement in Florida. While the world forgot about her, Alice found a radical sense of peace and autonomy within the asylum walls. This novel restores the voice of a woman long hidden in the shadows of a powerful man’s history.