A Woman to Know: Patience Wright
To shame the English king, I would go to any trouble and expense. — Patience
(image via National Portrait Gallery)
Patience was a bit of a Founding Fathers fangirl. By day she shaped wax figures in her Philadelphia studio; by night, she wrote long letters to Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and other colonial heroes. Her wax sculptu…
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