A Brave and Lovely Woman

Mamah Borthwick and Frank Lloyd Wright

Mark Borthwick (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

336 Seiten

2025
University of Wisconsin Press (Verlag)
978-0-299-34294-4 (ISBN)

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Offers keen insights into the narrative of Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Borthwick, a love story as American in character as it is Shakespearean in conclusion. Borthwick was an energetic, intelligent, and charismatic woman. She is best known, however, as Wright’s mistress and for her murder at the Wisconsin home he built for her, Taliesin.

Mamah Borthwick was an energetic, intelligent, and charismatic woman who earned a master’s degree at a time when few women even attended college, translated writings by a key figure of the early feminist movement, and traveled from the American prairie to Europe, Scandinavia, and even Japan. She is best known, however, as the mistress of the famous American architect Frank Lloyd Wright and for her shocking murder at the renowned Wisconsin home he built for her, Taliesin. A Brave and Lovely Woman offers keen insights into the narrative of Wright and Borthwick, a love story as American in character as it is Shakespearean in conclusion.

Little of Wright’s life and work has been left untouched by his many admirers, critics, and biographers. And yet the woman who stood at the center of his emotional life, Mamah Borthwick, has fallen into near obscurity. Mark Borthwick—a distant relative—recenters Mamah Borthwick in her own life, presenting a detailed portrait of a fascinating woman, a complicated figure who was at once a dedicated mother and a faithless spouse, a feminist and a member of a conservative sorority, a vivacious extrovert and a social pariah. Careful research and engaging prose at last give Borthwick, an enigmatic but crucial character in one of America’s most famous tragedies, center stage.

Mark Borthwick served as the director of the U.S. Asia Pacific Council at the East-West Center. He is the author of Pacific Century: The Emergence of Modern Pacific Asia.

Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Part One
1. Woman of the Hour
2. Heartland
3. Dakota Territory
4. The Prophecy
5. A Nobler Womanhood
6. Mrs. Jarley and Mrs. Cheney
7. Westward Ho
Part Two
8. Moderns in Transition
9. Local Hero
10. Cheney House
11. Modern Drama
12. Lunch at Marshall Field’s
13. Wisconsin Road Trip
14. Hyde Park Hideaway
15. Flight
Part Three
16. Berlin Setup
17. Home Fronts
18. Mission to Stockholm
19. Love and Ethics
20. Secession
21. Berlin to Alvastra
Part Four
22. Home of Tomorrow
23. A House Divided
24. Miss Chicago
25. Mamah of the Hills
26. Taisho Turmoil
27. The Woman Movement
28. Final Portrait
29. Lightning
30. All That Remains
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	7.1.2025
Zusatzinfo	66 b&w illus.
Verlagsort	Wisconsin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	0-299-34294-8 / 0299342948
ISBN-13	978-0-299-34294-4 / 9780299342944
Zustand	Neuware