Voltairine de Cleyre and Joseph Jacob Cohen

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Voltairine de Cleyre and Joseph Jacob Cohen

1894-1953

The collection is composed of two parts: the letters of Voltairine de Cleyre and the papers of Joseph Jacob Cohen. Letters from de Cleyre to Cohen, 1908-1912. Pamphlets and manuscripts by de Cleyre. Manuscripts by Cohen. Typescript of In Quest of Heaven. Pamphlets by Cohen. Personal correspondence of Cohen to family. Photographs.

10"

yid, Hebr

eng, Latn

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SNAC Resource ID: 11676533

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De Cleyre, Voltairine, 1866-1912

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Voltairine De Cleyre was an anarchist poet, lecturer, writer and teacher and a significant figure among the radicals of her day She was born in Leslie, Michigan on November 17, 1866. She lived in St. Johns, Michigan until 1880, when she was sent to a convent school in Sarnia, Ontario. After graduating from convent school, she became active in freethought circles, and then became interested in political change, moving from socialism to fervent anarchism. From the late 1880s until her death in ...