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Loading... Mabel Bell: Alexander's silent partner (edition 1988)by Lilias Toward
Work InformationMabel Bell: Alexander's silent partner by Lilias Toward
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I bought this book at the Alexander Graham Bell (AGB) museum in Baddeck, Nova Scotia, where Bell had his summer home, so my head was full of newly acquired AGB info and questions. This book helped fill out the picture you get by looking at info on AGB. It was written by a family friend who helped one of Mabel's daughters organize Mabel's letters. The author went on to do other research via family letters and Bell's notebooks. It gives a whole new perspective on Bell's life, his dedication to education of the deaf, and background to key events in the history of the telephone and the history of flight and the Curtiss airplane company. Mabel was a very intelligent woman, an articulate letter writer and thanks to the era she lived in, wrote many letters and paints a fascinating picture of her and Bell's life together. ( ) no reviews | add a review
Married to an Englishman in the late 1930s, Lilias Toward spent most of the war years in England, often in danger. She raised a son who is now an able and successful man in Canada. After her marriage dissolved, she returned to Nova Scotia, studied law, practiced it, and became a Q.C. She also planned and built a most unusual motel in the village of Baddeck and called it "The Silver Dart No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)362.4Social sciences Social problems and services; associations Social problems of & services to groups of people People with disabilitesLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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