Without these intellectual pursuits, Horan writes, the mother of two was grappling with depression.Īs for her husband, Edwin Cheney is written as a decent, loyal, successful man, who was proud of his intellectual wife and wanted her to be able to take his love for granted. She was brilliant with languages – able to speak three by the time she was in kindergarten – and was a teacher and librarian before her marriage. Wrights, but instead on the woman who was Wright's companion during the most tumultuous time of his long life: Mamah Borthwick Cheney.Ĭheney met Wright in 1904 when he designed one of his "prairie houses" for her and her husband, Edwin. Horan isn't focusing on any of the three Mrs. When it comes to architect Frank Lloyd Wright, you have to be a little specific about the woman in question. Now, former journalist Nancy Horan adds another fascinating entry with her first novel Loving Frank. Emerson's Wife" by Amy Belding Brown have used a combination of historical record and authorial imagination to pull intelligent, vibrant women out of the long shadows cast by the men they loved. There's a new literary policy in effect regarding great men and the women stuck behind them: Shoo the fellows out of the way.
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