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PrintCollection Name: Drachen Foundation Collection
Collection Number: 2429
Post Type: Book
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Artist or Author: Richard Maurer
Creation Year: 2003
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ISBN: 0-7613-1546-2 Language: English Description: On a chill December day in 1903, a young woman came home from her teaching job in Dayton, Ohio, to find a telegram waiting for her. The woman was Katharine Wright; the telegram, from her brother Orville, announced the first successful airplane flight in history.
In this, the first authoritative biography of the Wright brothers' sister, Richard Maurer tells Katharine's story. Well-educatied, opinionated, and articulate, she was both confidant and caregiver to her bachelor brothers, managing many of their affairs, traveling with them on frequent trips to demonstrate and promote their invention, and caring for them when they were sick from disease and injury. In doing so, she gave up her amitions as a teacher and her early hopes of marriage. Only in middle age, when the Wrights' fame and fortune were secure, did she find personal happiness, with a man she had met years before in college--something that was to cost her the affection of her surviving brother Orville, who had come to depend on her, and who disowned her after her marriage.
128 pages
Geographic: United States
Materials: Paper
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