The Women’s League for the Prohibition of Magic

The League was formed to do exactly what its name implies. But Beatrix Harper’s sister, Lydia, is organizing a new generation of activists to give the ineffective group a different mission: Fight for “typic” rights—and, Lydia hopes, get more rights for women into the bargain. The 21st century America of the Clandestine Magic series is 100 years behind on that score.

I imagined Lydia’s effort to overhaul the League would be like a temperance organization overtaken by women’s suffrage advocates. Here’s how that might look. (All these photographs are from the Library of Congress; click the link in the captions for non-alternate-reality information about them.)

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