She was exceptionally gifted as poet, writer, and lecturer. Later her father, having turned conservative, had placed her in a Catholic convent school, from which Voltairine subsequently escaped, rebelling against the authority of both. The latter, in his youth an admirer of Voltaire, had named his daughter after the great philosopher. Voltairine de Cleyre was born of a Quaker mother and a French father. These were the only monument Voltairine had ever wanted. I went to the cemetery with red carnations in my arms, while Annie carried red geraniums to be added to those she had already planted on the fresh grave. Voltairine had made her home with Annie and Jake Livshis, and she had been tenderly nursed by our devoted comrades to the very last. But few had so completely consecrated themselves to their cause as she, and fewer still had her genius to serve the ideal with singleness of purpose.Īrrived in Chicago, I went out to Waldheim with Annie Livshis, a dear common friend. Their martyrdom had awakened Voltairine's soul as it had so many other fine spirits. In compliance with her last request Voltairine was buried in Waldheim Cemetery, near the graves of our Chicago comrades. Her end, on June 19, was a great loss to our movement and to those who valued her strong personality and unusual talents. Voltairine, always stoical in pain, preferred death. A second operation, her friends had been informed, would have deprived her of the power of speech. Death had come after an operation for an abscess on the brain which had impaired her memory.
Her end affected me very deeply her whole life had been a continuous chain of suffering. ON MY RETURN EAST I LEARNED OF THE DEATH OF VOLTAIRINE DE Cleyre. 3161774 Living My Life Emma Goldman Volume two
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