Amanda Flower: To Slip the Bonds of Earth
Series debut
To Slip the Bonds of Earth is the first book in what looks to be a wonderful series by Amanda Flower, author of the Emily Dickinson mysteries and many other series, featuring an amazing, real-life heroine, Katharine Wright, sister of the Wright Brothers. Katharine was a remarkable woman, an intellectual, a suffragette, and the only college graduate among the Wright siblings. Katharine was very close to her famous brothers, Wilbur and Orville, but while they were brilliant engineers, they never went to college. Their father, a bishop, believed in educating daughters as well as sons, but Wilbur and Orville were largely self-taught, while Katharine graduated from Oberlin College, one of the few co-educational colleges at the time.