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 Loving Frank - Nancy Horan
Newest Review: ... After traveling to Europe with Wright, she became interested in the "Women Movement", and became acquainted with ... more  ... the Swedish feminist, Ellen Key. Mamah was known as the person who translated into English some of Key's most highly controversial essays on the subject.
But Horan didn't just chronicle these events; she also gave them her own fictional spin. Throughout the book, she takes elements of the research and tries to get into the heart and mind of Mamah. Thankfully, Horan didn't use the (quite frankly, vastly overused) first person point of view with this novel. Instead, using third person, Horan is able to delve ...more |
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Loving Frank - Nancy Horan: A Frankly Amazing Woman (1303 words)
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Nancy Horan's book "Loving Frank" is a fictional biography of Mamah Borthwick Cheney. I can already hear you saying "who?" and certainly any British audience would be expected to think that. Those interested in early 20th century architecture might recognize this name as being the woman who was Frank Lloyd Wright's lover - the woman he left his wife and family for which caused a scandal that rocked not only Chicago's society, but also the world of architecture. For those who don't know of Wright, he was of the Mies van der Rohe's "less is more" school of architecture (although he was quoted as saying "less is only more when more is ... Read the complete review
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