by Stephanie Dray | Jul 14, 2021 | For Readers, Frances Perkins
I’ll keep this updated as I stumble over more. “The accusation that I am a woman is incontrovertible.” “I came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain common workingmen.” “But with the slow menace of...
by Stephanie Dray | Jul 13, 2021 | Adrienne Lafayette, Heroines, My Works, The Women of Chateau Lafayette
This week marks a sad anniversary of the so-called Champs de Mars Massacre in Paris France, on July 17, 1791. The country was ostensibly a constitutional monarchy, but the king and the royal family had just fled Paris, only to be recognized on the road, and returned...
by Stephanie Dray | Jun 14, 2021 | Beatrice Chanler, My Works, The Women of Chateau Lafayette
On June 19, 1946 Beatrice Chanler passed away. She was traveling by train with French diplomat Alexis Leger, also known as Nobel prize winning poet Saint-John Perse. The two had spent summers together at her home in Islesboro, Maine since his exile from France after...
by Stephanie Dray | Jun 10, 2021 | American Revolution, For Readers, Fun Stuff, If the Hat Fits, The Women of Chateau Lafayette
In 1824, Lafayette made his Farewell Tour, visiting all twenty-four of the then United States. In anticipation of Independence Day I’d like to see him in all 50 states, and you can help!...
by Stephanie Dray | May 17, 2021 | Frances Perkins, Works in Progress
I love writing about unsung historical women, and my next subject will be Frances Perkins, the Founding Mother of 20th century America. FDR’s right hand woman, the first female cabinet secretary, and the woman whose lonely fight to save Jewish refugees from the...
