Book Used by Katharine Wright, "Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and Brother Jacob, 1860
THF250418 / Book Used by Katharine Wright, "Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and Brother Jacob, 1860 / front cover
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Artifact Overview
Milton and Susan Wright encouraged an interest in learning in their children Reuchlin, Lorin, Wilbur, Orville, and Katharine -- though not necessarily in formal education. Katharine was the only Wright child to finish college, graduating from Oberlin in 1898. Neither Wilbur nor Orville finished high school, but they learned much from their father's extensive home library.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Book
Date Made
1860
Place of Creation
Creator Notes
Written by Mary Anne Evans under the pen name of George Eliot and published by Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York, New York.
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
38.792.104
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Orville Wright.
Material
Cardboard
Paper (Fiber product)
Color
Red
Inscriptions
in pencil inside front cover:
Katharine Wright / K. Wright 9 Hawthorn
in pencil on first page:
Dec. 15, 1893 / Webster / Webster, Dec. 8, 1893 / 2 pages / skip a line / Catharine [sic] Wright
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