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Monthly Meeting – Pluck, Luck and Parachutes
25 July, 2023 @ 14:30
The talk will be given by:- Sharon Wright
“Pluck, Luck and Parachutes”
Edwardian skydivers Lily Cove and Dolly Shepherd were among the brave breed of women who made a living leaping from balloons and floating to earth by parachute, to the wild delight of the crowds that gathered to watch.
Except it didn’t always happen like that. Tragic ‘Leaping Lily’ fell to her doom in highly mysterious circumstances over the West Yorkshire moors in 1906. Meanwhile Dolly repeatedly cheated death, executed an astonishing mid-air rescue in 1908 and lived into her 90s. Sharon tells the often heart-breaking, always nail-biting stories of these plucky and liberated young women.
Sharon is an author and journalist with a long career writing and editing for magazines, newspapers and websites such as The Guardian, Daily Express, BBC, Glamour, Red, The Lady and New York Post.