Dead Anarchists
  • Home
  • Contemporaries
    • Contemporaries Overview
    • Paul Avrich
    • Paul Avrich Interview
    • Barbara Hirshkowitz
    • Nunzio Pernicone
    • The Solomons
    • Harry
  • DeCleyre
    • DeCleyre Overview
    • New Hope
    • Nihilists
    • Nameless
    • Marriage Debate
    • Domesticity
    • Two Freethinkers
  • Pentecost
    • Pentecost Overview
    • Pentecost Bio Sketch
    • Anarchism
    • First Anniversary Address
    • Sins of Government
    • Thomas Paine
  • Other Comrades
    • Other Comrades Overview
    • Jens Bjørneboe
    • Union Man on the Strike
    • Two Freethinkers
    • Abuse of Police Powers
    • Anton Köberlein
    • Anarchism, Its Origin and Creed
    • The Guardian of the Cemetery
  • From the Editor
    • Robert P. Helms
    • Doctors and Druggists
  • Contact

Voltairine de Cleyre, 1866-1912 ​

Born: November 17, 1866 
Leslie, Michigan 
Died: June 20, 1912 (aged 45) 
Chicago , Illinois

Freethinker, feminist, poet, anarchist.
Picture

Writings by De Cleyre on this site:

  • "The New Hope": A lost poem by Voltairine de Cleyre, rediscovered!
  • "Some Nihilists I Have Met" by Voltairine de Cleyre, with a new introduction by Robert P. Helms.
  • Philadelphia anarchist Voltairine de Cleyre's moving poem Nameless.
  • In 1907, Voltairine de Cleyre debated the marriage question with Philadelphia physician and freethinker Henrietta Westbrook. De Cleyre took the position that They Who Marry Do Ill. But in asking Is Marriage a Failure?, Westbrook answered "No."
  • A never-before published 1897 letter by Voltairine de Cleyre: On domesticity, jealousy, and abortion.

Writings about De Cleyre on this site:

Ida Celanire Craddock & Voltairine de Cleyre: Two Freethinkers of Philadelphia by Robert P. Helms
Dead Anarchists
www.deadanarchists.org
​© Copyright 2022
  • Home
  • Contemporaries
    • Contemporaries Overview
    • Paul Avrich
    • Paul Avrich Interview
    • Barbara Hirshkowitz
    • Nunzio Pernicone
    • The Solomons
    • Harry
  • DeCleyre
    • DeCleyre Overview
    • New Hope
    • Nihilists
    • Nameless
    • Marriage Debate
    • Domesticity
    • Two Freethinkers
  • Pentecost
    • Pentecost Overview
    • Pentecost Bio Sketch
    • Anarchism
    • First Anniversary Address
    • Sins of Government
    • Thomas Paine
  • Other Comrades
    • Other Comrades Overview
    • Jens Bjørneboe
    • Union Man on the Strike
    • Two Freethinkers
    • Abuse of Police Powers
    • Anton Köberlein
    • Anarchism, Its Origin and Creed
    • The Guardian of the Cemetery
  • From the Editor
    • Robert P. Helms
    • Doctors and Druggists
  • Contact