The Wright sister : a novel

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Label

The Wright sister : a novel

Title remainder

a novel

Statement of responsibility

Patty Dann

Creator

• Dann, Patty

Author

• Dann, Patty

Subject

• Brothers and sisters -- Fiction
• Diaries -- Fiction
• Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Fiction
• Feminists -- United States -- Fiction
• Haskell, Katharine Wright, 1874-1929 -- Fiction
• Historical fiction
• Historical fiction
• Biographical fiction
• Self-realization in women -- Fiction
• Suffragists -- United States -- Fiction
• Wright, Orville, 1871-1948 -- Fiction
• Letters -- Fiction
• Biographical fiction

Genre

• Historical fiction
• Fiction
• Biographical fiction

Language

eng

Summary

"On December 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright flew the world's first airplane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, establishing the Wright Brothers as world-renowned pioneers of flight. Known to far fewer people was their whip-smart and well-educated sister Katharine, a suffragette and early feminist. After Wilbur passed away, Katharine lived with and took care of her increasingly reclusive brother Orville, who often turned to his more confident and supportive sister to help him through fame and fortune. But when Katharine became engaged to their mutual friend, Harry Haskell, Orville felt abandoned and betrayed. He smashed a pitcher of flowers against a wall and refused to attend the wedding or speak to Katharine or Harry. As the years went on, the siblings grew further and further apart. In The Wright Sister, Patty Dann wonderfully imagines the blossoming of Katharine, revealed in her 'Marriage Diary'--in which she emerges as a frank, vibrant, intellectually and socially engaged, sexually active woman coming into her own--and her one-sided correspondence with her estranged brother as she hopes to repair their fractured relationship. Even though she pictures 'Orv' throwing her letters away, Katharine cannot contain her joie de vivre, her love of married life, her strong advocacy of the suffragette cause, or her abiding affection for her stubborn sibling as she fondly recalls their shared life. An inspiring and poignant chronicle of feminism, family, and forgiveness, The Wright Sister is an unforgettable portrait of a woman, a sister of inventors, who found a way to reinvent herself."--

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

MLSOD

Dewey number

813.54

Illustrations

portraits

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3554.A575

LC item number

W75 2020

Literary form

fiction