Frank Lloyd Wright on Architecture: Selected Writings 1894-1940. Edited with an Introduction by Frederick Gutheim

Wright, Frank Lloyd

Published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, 1941

About this Item

index, xviii, 275p. Original cloth. dj. 22cm. Jacket chipped and worn, and also split along folds. Gift inscription. This book has been sitting online and in our art and architecture section for a decade attracting no attention. Phil noticed the gift inscription ("Professor Corbin, With my deepest admiration and best wishes, from a grateful pupil, Shirley Adelson. May 21, 1941") on a Saturday afteroon and wondered who Professor Corbin and Shirley Adelson might be. IShirley Adelson Siegel, 1918-2020, a Phi Beta Kappa Barnard graduate had subsequently attended the London School of Economics and then was the only women in the class of 1941 at Yale Law School. Despite ranking 4th in her class of 125, Adelson had trouble getting a job. According to the Yale Law School notice of her death, Professor Arthur L. Corbin, after hearing that she was having trouble getting a job, wrote to potential employers in New York, saying: "'She is one of the best in industry, in mental power and in personality. Anyone who employs her in legal work will have reason to be thankful to us." She still had trouble getting a job and was turned down by 40 firms. Proskauer, Rose & Paskus finally hired her at the firm's first female attorney. This book may have been her grateful acknowledgement of Corbin's kind effort to help her find emplyment despite being a woman. Siegel appears to have worked in private practice for 20 years without ever becoming a partner. She was involved heavily with pro bono work in various areas including Japanese internment, civil rights and housing. She served as New York State's Solicitor General, 1989-1992.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Frank Lloyd Wright on Architecture: Selected Writings 1894-1940. Edited with an Introduction by Frederick Gutheim
• Publisher: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York
• Publication Date: 1941
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Poor
• Seller catalogs:
  • Architecture
  • Women's Studies