Sharon Wright: Those Magnificent Women and their Flying Machines
Channel: ChawtonHouse
Date: 16/05/2020

INTERVIEW: Those Magnificent Women and their Flying Machines
Female balloonists were just as fabulous as Hollywood’s fictional Amelia in The Aeronauts. In this interview with Chawton House Chief Executive, Katie Childs, Sharon will discuss the astonishing true stories of the female pioneers of balloon flight.

More than a century before the first aeroplane female balloonists were heading for the heavens in crazy, inspired contraptions that could bring death or glory and all too often, both. Discover their hair-raising adventures in the lost history of the lady aeronauts.

Buy the Book: https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Balloonomania-Belles-Hardback/p/14597 


Sharon Wright is an author, journalist and playwright. She was born in Bradford and now lives in South West London with her family. She has worked as a writer, editor and columnist for leading national magazines, newspapers and websites including The Guardian, Daily Express, BBC, Disney, Glamour, Red and Take a Break. Her first book, Balloonomania Belles, was serialised in The Mail on Sunday and received widespread coverage, including on BBC Woman’s Hour and in the New York Post. In 2019 she released her second book: The Mother of the Brontes’, a biography of Maria Branwell.

Sharon’s talk will be followed by a Twitter Q&A. Join the Conversation #ChawtonLitFest

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