She was born in 1878 to a large, eccentric French-Canadian brood. In her own way, Matilde Moisant was equally unconventional. (Photo: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archives/flickr)
They would find their dainty and fastidious relatives with greasy hands and smudged faces…these women would also show the same amount of satisfaction that the average man shows in doing the work."Ī signed photograph of Harriet Quimby and Matilde Moisant. “If husbands, fathers and brothers could look in while a class is in session,” she wrote, “they would be amazed.
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In a typical story for the magazine, she advocated for women to learn how to drive and fix cars. In 1903, she moved to New York, where she got a job writing for the popular Leslie’s Illustrated Weekly. She became the magazine’s drama critic and women’s rights champion. Harriet became a well-known reporter in San Francisco, with “the best nose for news” her editor had ever encountered. She had the most beautiful blue eyes, oh what eyes she had.” Harriet grew into a glamorous woman Matilde would later recall her as “tall and willowy…the prettiest girl I’d ever seen. Her mother concocted a story that Harriet had in fact been born to a wealthy Boston family, and shaved a remarkable eight years off of her daughter’s age. Born to a down-on-its luck family in 1875, Harriet was raised by her ambitious mother to be a freethinking and sophisticated woman. Harriet Quimby was the older of the two, though she would have denied it with her dying breath.
For one brilliant year in the early 1900s, these pioneering aviatrixes streaked across the sky together, becoming national heroes and media darlings-until tragedy grounded them permanently. Matilde Moisant and Harriet Quimby were by all outward appearances proper Edwardian ladies.
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