num_pages: 352
description: She built a monument for all time. Then she was lost in its shadow. Discover the fascinating woman who helped design and construct the Brooklyn Bridge.Emily Roebling refuses to live conventionallyshe knows who she is and what she wants and she's determined to make change. But then her husband asks the unthinkable: give up her dreams to make his possible.Emily's fight for women's suffrage is put on hold and her life transformed when her husband Washington Roebling the Chief Engineer of the Brooklyn Bridge is injured on the job. Untrained for the task but under his guidance she assumes his role despite stern resistance and overwhelming obstacles. But as the project takes shape under Emily's direction she wonders whose legacy she is buildinghers or her husband's. As the monument rises Emily's marriage principles and identity threaten to collapse. When the bridge finally stands finished will she recognize the woman who built it?Based on the true story of an American icon The Engineer's Wife delivers an emotional portrait of a woman transformed by a project of unfathomable scale which takes her into the bowels of the East River suffragette riots the halls of Manhattan's elite and the heady freewheeling temptations of P.T. Barnum. The biography of a husband and wife determined to build something that lastseven at the risk of losing each other.
language: English
title: The Engineer's Wife
publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark