She Stitched the Stars: A Story of Ellen Harding Baker's Solar System Quilt (She Made History)
Albert Whitman & Company, 2021. Louise Pigott. Hardcover. A clean crisp well preserved 2021 Albert Whitman & Company hardcover in a fine tight binding. Little to no shelf wear. Text is bright and free of marks or underlining. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. New / New. Item #1180 At a time when girls and women were supposed to limit their worlds to home, one mother looked beyond--to space. In 1876 Ellen Harding Baker began stitching an extraordinary quilt, one that accurately depicted our solar system. Ellen, a Iowa storekeeper's wife and a mother, had a curiosity that reached far beyond the stratosphere. Today the quilt hangs in the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. This lyrical story imagines the creation of the quilt from the perspective of Ellen's daughters, who, like their mother, lived in a time when girls and women were expected to limit their pursuit of knowledge, and who may have been inspired to dream bigger and look farther.
ISBN: 9780807573228
Price: $16.95