Queen of the mist / Joan Murray.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murray, Joan, 1945-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Taylor, Annie Edson, 1838-1921--Poetry.

Taylor, Annie Edson.

Taylor, Annie Edson, 1838-1921.

Women stunt performers--Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.)--Poetry.

Women stunt performers.

Daredevils--Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.)--Poetry.

Daredevils.

Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.)--History--Poetry.

Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.).

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xi, 110 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Beacon Press, [1999]

Summary:

The Forgotten Heroine of Niagara This novel-in-verse tells the fascinating story of Annie Taylor, who, in 1901, became the first person to plunge over the brink of Niagara Falls in a barrel. But as Joan Murray reveals, America didn't know what to do with a mature and self-possessed heroine: Annie Taylor, as an "older woman, " was rejected and exploited and finally eclipsed by the man who repeated her stunt ten years later. "A portrait of a woman so achingly intimate it will linger long in your memory."-Joyce Carol Oates

ISBN:

0807068527

OCLC:

39800722