Book Used by Katharine Wright, "Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and Brother Jacob, 1860

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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

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.

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