NOT an ex library book. 296 pages including the index. Dust jacket has no chips or tears, price is not clipped. Theodate Pope Riddle was one of America's first successful female architects.

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Title: Dearest of Geniuses: A Life of Theodate Pope Riddle
Publisher: Tide-Mark Pr Ltd
Publication Date: 2003
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1559498285
ISBN 13: 9781559498289
Binding: hardcover
Edition: First Edition, no additional pri.
Condition: near fine
Dust Jacket Condition: near fine
Weight: 20 ounces

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Dearest of Geniuses is the first definitive biography of one of America�s first successful female architects, Theodate Pope Riddle (1867-1946). In addition to designing schools and private homes in Connecticut and New York, Theodate designed and supervised the reconstruction of President Theodore Roosevelt�s Birthplace in New York City. Theodate�s masterpiece is the unusual medieval campus of Avon Old Farms School, where she served as founder and pioneered a progressive curriculum far ahead of its time. The school continues to flourish today and receives ongoing acclaim as an architectural tour de force and as an innovative educational institution.

According to writer and critic Brendan Gill, Theodate Pope Riddle was one of the ten most distinguished American women of the 20th century. Her friend, the famed psychologist Carl Jung, saw her as an "intuitive" woman who trusted her instincts, ignored raised eyebrows, and courageously forged ahead despite the restrictions of her day.

Using Theodate�s extensive correspondence, girlhood diaries, journals, memoirs, transcripts of s�ances, and sittings with mediums, as well as interviews, family letters, and other sources, author Sandra L. Katz re-creates the life of this extraordinary woman.

About the Author

Sandra L. Katz is Professor Emerita of English at the University of Hartford and is also the author of Elinor Frost: A Poet's Wife. She had also published articles on Robert Frost and other American writers.

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