The Emily Chesley Reading Circle

Writer, poet, social activist, explorer, aviatrix, and 92-year-old pole vaulter: Emily Chesley played many roles in her long and remarkable life. These are abridged excerpts from her biography, Get Bent: Emily Chesley’s Life of Speculation, which recounts the humble beginnings and formative experiences of the Speculative Songstress Of The Southwest.

Here are the introductory chapters from The Meanderings of the Emily Chesley Reading Circle:

Her Humble Beginnings.
A Legacy of War Heroics, Savagery & Alcohol Dependence (Part One)
A Legacy of War Heroics, Savagery & Alcohol Dependence (Part Two)

You can read the rest of her biography (to 1904) in The Meanderings of the Emily Chesley Reading Circle.