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Voltairine de Cleyre

1866 - 1912

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Voltairine de Cleyre (née De Claire; November 17, 1866 – June 20, 1912) was an American anarchist, feminist writer and public speaker. Born into extreme poverty in Michigan, de Cleyre taught herself how to read and write, and became a lover of poetry. She was educated at a Catholic convent, which improved her literary and linguistic capabilities, but also influenced her turn towards anti-theism and anti-authoritarianism. After graduating, de Cleyre began her activist career in the freethought movement, lecturing around the country and writing for a number of rationalist publications. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Voltairine de Cleyre is the 3,904th most popular writer (down from 1,900th in 2019), the 5,661st most popular biography from United States (down from 2,408th in 2019) and the 444th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Voltairine de Cleyre ranks 3,904 out of 7,302. Before her are Zenta Mauriņa, Gertrude Jekyll, Angel Wagenstein, Kjartan Fløgstad, Javier Cercas, and Aboul-Qacem Echebbi. After her are Duchess Agnes of Württemberg, Mato Kósyk, Nikolay Novikov, Nikola Vaptsarov, Saken Seifullin, and Zhou Zuoren.

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Among people born in 1866, Voltairine de Cleyre ranks 102. Before her are Euclides da Cunha, Alexander Protopopov, Émile Auguste Joseph De Wildeman, Ants Laikmaa, J. B. M. Hertzog, and James J. Corbett. After her are Nazikeda Kadın, Wlodimir Ledóchowski, Richard Beer-Hofmann, Johannes Jørgensen, Princess Louise Sophie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, and George Coșbuc. Among people deceased in 1912, Voltairine de Cleyre ranks 92. Before her are Lewis Boss, Eduardo López de Romaña, Toyohara Chikanobu, Tony Robert-Fleury, Marc-Émile Ruchet, and Jaroslav Vrchlický. After her are José Canalejas, Antonio Pacinotti, Cesare Arzelà, James Allen, Francis Davis Millet, and Daniel Burnham.

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Among people born in United States, Voltairine de Cleyre ranks 5,661 out of 20,380. Before her are Kenny Ortega (1950), James M. Gavin (1907), Kelly Hu (1968), Kenneth Noland (1924), David Proval (1942), and Mike Massimino (1962). After her are Mamie Van Doren (1931), Michael Foreman (1957), Anne Revere (1903), Leo Huberman (1903), W. C. Fields (1880), and Casper Van Dien (1968).

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Among writers born in United States, Voltairine de Cleyre ranks 444. Before her are Bill Bryson (1951), Zoe Akins (1886), Sara Teasdale (1884), Delia Owens (1949), Greg Bear (1951), and David Brin (1950). After her are Charles Grandison Finney (1792), Michael Blake (1945), Henry Adams (1838), Joe Haldeman (1943), Elizabeth Strout (1956), and Syd Field (1935).

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