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Voltairine de Cleyre
Voltairine de Cleyre was an American anarchist feminist writer and public speaker.
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culture · American anarchist writer and feminist (1866–1912) · poet · essayist · journalist · women's rights activist · anarchist · peace activist · philosopher · writer · feminist · also Voltairine de Cleyre, Cleyre
Born 17 November 1866 · Died 20 June 1912 · Q235361
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2024· 1 entry
ActuaLitté: Cleyre voltairine De, Voltairine de Cleyre, Yves Coleman, Lionel Cruzille
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2018· 1 entry
WRAL: Overlooked No More: Voltairine de Cleyre, America’s ‘Greatest Woman Anarchist’
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2015· 1 entry
JSTOR Daily: Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius
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2013· 2 entries
Libcom: The Voltairine de Cleyre Reader
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jagranjosh.com: Anarchism theorist: Voltairine de Cleyre
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2012· 1 entry
voir: Pour saluer Voltairine de Cleyre (1866-20 juin 1912)
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2005· 1 entry
Two more collections of her speeches and articles were published: Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre – Anarchist, Feminist, Genius, edited by Sharon Presley and Crispin Sartwell and published by SUNY Pre
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1912· 3 entries
Died 1912-06-20.
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And was buried near the grave of the Haymarket anarchists
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De Cleyre's friends, led by Alexander Berkman, formed a committee to collect and publish her writings
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1910· 1 entry
Wrote a letter to Saul Yanovsky in which she expressed regret that the bombing had not killed the paper's publisher, Harrison Gray Otis
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1909· 1 entry
A mass meeting was held at the Cooper Union by the National Free Speech Committee, on which de Cleyre was one of the leading anarchist members
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1908· 2 entries
But as the prosecution failed to produce a witness, the judge rendered a "not guilty" verdict
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De Cleyre spoke out against the capitalist system and called for workers to expropriate the means of production and private property
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1902· 1 entry
De Cleyre was shot three times at point blank range by Herman Helcher, a former student who had developed an obsession with her and harbored paranoid delusions about her actions
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1895· 1 entry
De Cleyre began contributing to The Rebel, an anarchist communist magazine founded by the English anarchist Charles Mowbray, for whom de Cleyre had previously raised funds for his legal defense against sedition charges
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1892· 1 entry
Co-founded the Ladies' Liberal League (LLL), a freethinking feminist group which organized forums on various political subjects
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1891· 1 entry
But she largely stayed away from her son
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1890· 2 entries
De Cleyre gave birth to their son Harry, but her chronic condition and depressive mood made her feel physically and emotionally incapable of raising him
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“The Economic Tendency of Freethought”
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1886· 1 entry
Moved to Grand Rapids and became editor-in-chief of the weekly freethought magazine The Progressive Age
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1866· 1 entry
Born 1866-11-17.
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