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A review by claudiaswisher
Patience Wright: American Sculptor and Revolutionary Spy by Pegi Deitz Shea, Bethanne Andersen
4.0
Another woman most of us have never heard of...and artist and spy?? How very cool. Patience and her sister worked in wax...making life-sized figures, often of the famous people of the day. She caught the attention of Ben Franklin, who became her champion.
She moved to England before the Revolutionary War, and stayed, making her figures, and sending intelligence back to the Colonial rebels within the heads of her beautiful sculptures. Daring! She was suspected to be a spy and followed Franklin to Paris...she never returned to the fledgling country she helped create. Only one of her sculptures still exists...of William Pitt.
She moved to England before the Revolutionary War, and stayed, making her figures, and sending intelligence back to the Colonial rebels within the heads of her beautiful sculptures. Daring! She was suspected to be a spy and followed Franklin to Paris...she never returned to the fledgling country she helped create. Only one of her sculptures still exists...of William Pitt.