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      • Eddie Balchowsky
      • Voltarine de Cleyre
      • Eugene Dennis
      • Raya Dunayevskaya
      • Joseph Dietzgen
      • William Z. Foster
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      • Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
      • Ben Reitman
      • Lucy Parsons
      • Franklin Rosemont
      • Ann Sosnovsky Winokur
    • Labor and Political Burials >
      • Joe Mariani
      • Cigar Makers' International
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  • People of Interest Buried in Cemetery
    • Ashbel Steele
    • Austin Family
    • Philander Barclay
    • Edwin Oscar Gale
    • Sophy and Charles Drechsler
    • Fedinand Haase
    • Doris Humphrey
    • Flora Gill
    • Dr. Clarence and Grace Hemingway
    • Dr. Frank and Phyllis Oreland
    • Augustin and Elizabeth Porter
    • Edward Hand and Lillie Morey Pitkin
    • Martha Louise Rayne
    • Origen White Herrick
    • Dr Thomas Roberts Hurlbut
    • Joseph and Betty Kettlestrings
    • Roos Family
    • James Fletcher Skinner
    • Billy Sunday
    • Adolph Westphal
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  • Disaster Victims
    • Eastland ship disaster
    • Iroquois Theatre Fire
    • Smallpox Epidemic
    • St. Valentine's Day Massacre
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  • Addtional Resources
    • Forest Park Review articles

Voltairine de Cleyre
(1866–1912)

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Voltairine de Cleyre was an American anarchist writer and feminist. She was a prolific writer and speaker, opposing the state, marriage, and the domination of religion in sexuality and women's lives. Named by her father after the French philosopher, Voltaire de Cleyre spent 4 childhood years in a convent. True to her namesake, she rebelled against convent life and moved to Philadelphia and later Baltimore, where she taught English to immigrant workers. Before the Haymarket Trial, she had believed in the essential justice of American law, but "after this [the trial] I never could," she said. She became outspoken opponent of police censorship and repression, later became a good friend of Emma Goldman.

Goldman called her the "most gifted and brilliant anarchist woman America ever produced." De Cleyre's ideas live on in her many essays and poems, several collections of which are currently in print.

Books include, The First Mayday: The Haymarket Speeches, 1895-1910, Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre--Anarchist, Feminist, Genius and Gates of Freedom: Voltairine de Cleyre and the Revolution of the Mind.


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Additional Resources

  • Voltairine de Cleyre Homepage
  • Free audiobooks of Voltairine de Cleyre at LibriVox
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