A Brave and Lovely Woman: Mamah Borthwick and Frank Lloyd Wright

Mamah Borthwick earned a master’s degree at a time when few women even attended college, translated writings by a key figure of the early feminist movement, and traveled from the American prairie to Europe, Scandinavia, and Japan. She is best known, however, as the mistress of the famous American architect Frank Lloyd Wright and for her shocking murder at the renowned Wisconsin home he built for her, Taliesin.

Little of Wright’s life and work has been left untouched, and yet the woman who ...