Voltairine de Cleyre (1866–1912)
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Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre-Feminist, Anarchist, Genius (2005) 49 exemplaren
The Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre: Poems, Essays, Sketches and Stories, 1885-1911 (2016) 33 exemplaren
Voltairine de Cleyre - In Defense of Emma Goldman and the Right of Expropriation (2015) 2 exemplaren
Crime and Punishment 2 exemplaren
The making of an anarchist 1 exemplaar
Poetry 1 exemplaar
Works of Voltairine de Cleyre 1 exemplaar
Why I Am an Anarchist 1 exemplaar
Francisco Ferrer 1 exemplaar
The Paris Commune 1 exemplaar
Short Fiction 1 exemplaar
Collected Poems 1 exemplaar
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She Wields a Pen: American Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century (1997) — Medewerker — 34 exemplaren
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- Cleyre, Voltairine de
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- 1866-11-17
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1912-06-20
- Graflocatie
- Waldheim Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Leslie, Michigan, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Leslie, Michigan, USA
Ontario, Canada
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA - Opleiding
- Convent of Our Lady of Lake Huron
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feminist - Relaties
- Lum, Dyer D. (mentor, lover)
Goldman, Emma (friend) - Korte biografie
- Anarchist without adjectives Voltairine de Cleyre was born in Leslie, Michigan, and educated in a Catholic convent (from which she tried to run away). After graduating, she became a strongly anti-clerical freethinker, feminist, and political radical, influenced by the works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Clarence Darrow, and Thomas Paine. De Cleyre felt her life change forever after the executions of the Haymarket protestors in Chicago in 1887. She was known as a excellent, passionate public speaker and writer and a tireless advocate for the cause of anarchism. In 1890, she had a son with James B. Elliot, another freethinker. From 1889 to 1910, she lived among poor Jewish immigrants in Philadelphia, where she taught English and music and learned Yiddish. She was plagued by bouts of illness and depression and attempted suicide on at least two occasions. An attack on her life by a former student left her with chronic ear pain and a throat infection that often made it painful for her to speak or concentrate. She died of meningitis in 1912 and was buried near her friend Emma Goldman. [This must have been rather hard on Emma, who did not die until 1940.]Read An American Anarchist: The Life of Voltairine de Cleyre by Paul Avrich (1978). "The most gifted and brilliant anarchist woman America ever produced."
--Emma Goldman
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