p. 43 “A rather wicked figure”: M. Leggott, personal communication. 6 Mar. 2013.
Chapter 5 — Beyond Sydney
p. 44 Lawson traveled between New Zealand and Australia: Edmond 2014.
p. 44 A patron to send him to England: Moore 2007, 222.
p. 44 “Talent goes for little here”: Lawson 1977/1892, 18.
p. 44 “The Australian Girl”: Castilla 1888.
p. 45 “I was not born a parasite”: “Franklin, Stella Maria Sarah Miles” in Nairn 1981.
p. 45 “One of the blood-suckers who loll…” and “Ah, thou cruel fiend”: Franklin 2004/1901.
p. 45 Eight-minute walk: Sands New South Wales Directory, 1903/1904, 1041.
p. 45 Future Premier: Warne 2005.
p. 45 Most photographed of the city: North Sydney Council.
p. 45 Home to writers and artists: Moore 2012.
p. 45 Lawson kept a room at Byer’s Coffee: North Sydney Council.
p. 45 His daughter’s high school: North Shore Historical Society 1994.
p. 45 “Found themselves of more importance”: Mack 1993/1896, 42.
p. 45 “Beerhemia”: Moore 2012, 231.
p. 46 “The old horse ferry…”: qtd. in North Shore Historical Society 1994.
p. 46 Sex speeches in a toga: ibid.
p. 46 “Wowser”: See urbandictionary.com/wowser.
p. 46 Mary Gilmore: “Gilmore, Dame Mary Jean” in Nairn 1983.
p. 46 “State funeral: Gilmore 1940.
p. 46 Our women shall walk in honor…”: “Queen Mary of the Claremont” (2012).
p. 46 “One of the two finest…”: qtd. in Dennis 2014.
p. 46 Father went bankrupt: “Biography of Lesbia Harford,” poemhunter.com.
p. 46 Law degree, Wobblies, organizer, ill health: ibid.
p. 46 Affairs with both sexes: “Lesbia Harford – The Rebel Girl” 2001.
p. 47 Cubism and Vorticism: ibid.
p. 47 “Poetry…should not be consciously propagandized”: “Biography of Lesbia Harford,” poemhunter.com.
p. 47 “I will not rush with great wings gloriously”: “Deliverance Through Art” Harford 1915/1985.
p. 47 Harford died in 1927, leaving behind: Sparrow 2014.
p. 47 Stephens opened a failed bookstore: “Stephens, Alfred George” in Ritchie 1990.
p. 47 “Breeders” for “white” Australia: Magarey 2001.
p. 47 “Beloved city, city I love”: Ridge, Diary, 1 Jan. 1941.
p. 47 Stepfather died of pneumonia: New Zealand BDM, 1906, and West Coast Times 16 Jan. 1906.
p. 47 Mother died shortly thereafter: New South Wales BDM, 1907.
p. 47 Planning to travel to San Francisco: Sproat to Engles, 1977.
p. 47 Still a coffee bar today: The contemporary shop is called Il Centro Espresso Bar, located at 50 King Street in Sydney.
p. 47 Didn’t serve liquor: Noyce 2012.
p. 47 Informant on the death certificate: Leggott 2006, 9, and New South Wales BDM.
p. 47 Alderman in Canterbury: Sydney Morning Herald 4 Feb. 1904, 2.
p. 48 “Rosa Webster”: New South Wales BDM. Her mother was buried 6 Aug. 1907.
p. 48 “Nil”: “S.S. Moana List of Alien Passengers.”
p. 48 “Fiercely independent girl”: Overell 2013.
p. 48 Mother and son set sail: Sproat to Engles, 1977; Brown hair and blue eyes: “S.S. Moana List of Alien Passengers,” and Gillian Simpson, ANMM Library, personal communication 6 Sept. 2014.
Chapter 6 — Last Links with Australasia
p. 49 Description of the Moana: Brewer 1982, 73-77.
p. 49 “The moneymakers”: Phelan 1991, 107.
p. 49 “I came steerage to America”: Ridge to Lawson 16 Mar. 1932.
p. 49 First stop Suva: Scrimgeour 2006.
p. 50 “The ever-smiling face”: Lees 1918, 175.
p. 50 Docked in Honolulu: Scrimgeour 2006.
p. 50 75 guest rooms: “History of the Moana Hotel,” hawaiiforvisitors.com.
p. 50 London spent the year surfing: Charmian London to Dr. Goodhue, 18 June 1907.
p. 50 “We could see the masts and funnels”: London 2003/1911, 47.
p. 50 Taro beds: “University of Hawaii” 2012.
p. 50 Electric trolleys: Navares 2014.
p. 51 James and Margaret Webster photograph: Cyclopedia of New Zealand 1906, 426, courtesy of Hokitika Museum.
p. 51 Worked as a government valuator: West Coast Times 3 Feb. 1906: 2.
p. 51 The children had children: Leggott 2013, 33.
p. 52 Inherited his father’s ears: G. Bernand-Wehner, photo in correspondence with M. Leggott, 8 Apr. 2011.
p. 52 Poorhouses in the U.S.: Crannell 2012.
p. 52 Two-year-old died of starvation: “Marina Tsvetaeva Biography,” egs.edu.
p. 52 “Motherhood, for the women poets”: Drake 1987, 121-122.
p. 52 Broke all the dishes: Barnet 2004, 44.
p. 52 Icy toolshed: Hamalian 2009, 28, and Mellen 1994, 121.
p. 52 Deposited with shepherds: Conover 2001, 62.
p. 53 Never mentioned the son: Drake 1987, 123. Drake theorizes that not mentioning him was the only way Wylie could cope with the guilt.
p. 53 Ridge paid for Boyle’s abortion: Berke 2001, 83.
p. 53 Her daughter wore tunics, sandals, punished: Mellen, 1994, 122.
p. 53 Dragged through ménage à trois: Daggy 1996.
p. 53 “Keep herself fresh”: Bynner 1951, 188.
p. 53 H.D. abortion and daughter’s name: Schaffner 2002.
p. 53 Claimed to have been happy: Schaffner 1980, 143.
Chapter 7 — “Not Without Fame in Her Own Land”
p. 54 Record dry spell: “Vancouver sets record for driest Sept.,” CBC News, 1 Oct. 2012. cbc.ca/news.
p. 54 Robsons in Canada: “Robson Family Tree,” ancestry.ca.
p. 54 Canadian writers emigrated to New York: Mount 2005, 237.
p. 54 Transferred son and luggage: U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, “City of Puebla.”
p. 54 “Parents to Fight for Custody of Babes”: The San Francisco Call 30 Sept. 1907.
p. 54 10 years younger: “S.S. Moana List of Alien Passengers.”
p. 54 Took years off her age in Australia: Leggott 2013, 6; Rose Webster [Lola Ridge] to A.G. Stephens. 27 Jan. 1904 in “Stephens, A.G. Mitchell Library. “Autobiographies of 231 Australian and New Zealand Authors and Artists”, 1901-1924. 994.
p. 55 Her mother lied about her age: Leggott 2013, 1.
p. 55 Declared she was Australian: ibid; “S.S. Moana List of Alien Passengers.”
p. 55 Gratitude to cousin Eddie: M. Leggott, personal communication. W. C. Penfold was a prominent stationer and printer and Elaine Sproat suggested that Eddie was particularly beloved in an email to Leggott. “The fact that Eddie had Lola[’s] mss. and drawings that were passed down to his daughter is an indication that Eddie and Lola were close,” according to Leggott.
p. 55 “Not without fame in her own land”: San Francisco Overland Monthly Mar. 1908, 295.
p. 55 “Chronicles of Sandy Gully as Kept by Skiting Bill”: ibid., 298-9.
p. 56 Service’s book had become a bestseller: Mallory 2009, 216.
p. 56 “Western Atlantic Monthly”: Mott 1957/1938, 403.
p. 56 Cather and Neihardt contributed: ibid., 408.
p. 56 London received 15 cents a word: ibid.
p. 56 Ash and plague: Worth 2005, 60.
p. 56 Kidnapped, dynamited, and shot: Denman 1910; Grossman 2008, 407.
p. 56 Money to the Red Cross: Coate 2010, 3.
p. 56 Armed streetcar conductors: “Strike!” Market Street Railway, 20 July 2008, streetcar.org/strike.
p. 57 Living in horse stalls: “1906 Earthquake,” mtdavidson.org/1906-earthquake.
p. 57 “Liberated” flour: Davies 2011, 76.
p. 57 Telephones and saloons speedily restored: Livingston 2006, Hansen et al. 2013, 150; Sedgwick 1906.
; p. 57 Three major earthquakes: “List of Earthquakes in New Zealand,” Wikipedia.
p. 57 “Sydney Valley”: Giles 2014, 168.
p. 57 No Penfolds: San Francisco 1907 City Directory.
p. 57 Lewis, a student of Ashton’s: “Martin Lewis,” britishmuseum.org/research.
p. 57 “Posthole digger and a merchant seaman”: “Martin Lewis,” oldprintshop.com.
p. 57 Published in The Bulletin, New York by 1909: ibid.
p. 57 McKinley campaign: ibid.
p. 57 Sold proto-social realist prints: McCarron 1995, 5, “Martin Lewis,” spanierman.com, and “Marin Lewis,” britishmuseum.org/research.
p. 57 “Escapee from a tramp steamer”: Albert Reese’s introduction to McCarron 1995, ix.
p. 58 Lawson’s draft card: U.S. Selective Service System.
p. 58 Daycare was five cents: Neugenbauer and Hartzell 2010, 34-35.
p. 58 She and Keith traveled to LA: In a letter to Lawson, 7 Apr. 1936, Ridge writes, “I lived in [California] from Sept. till end of Feb.”
p. 58 Asserted her husband had died: Bill Shennum, personal communication. 10 Apr. 2013.
p. 58 Left her son 3 Feb.: G. Bernand-Wehner, correspondence with M. Leggott. 4 Apr. 2011.
p. 58 Cared for “incorrigibles”: California Board of Charities and Corrections, 329.
p. 58 Mostly “half-orphans”: ibid., 130.
p. 58 “Places they could leave their children temporarily”: Zmora 1994.
p. 58 More than 100,000 children: Dabbagh 2011, 32.
p. 58 Scheiderman’s children: Hyman 2009.
p. 58 Lange’s children: Meltzer 2000, 137.
p. 58 Children not regularly adopted: McKenzie 2009, 247.
p. 58 Terrible overcrowding: California Board of Examiners, 11.
p. 58 $25 aid for two months: ibid.
p. 59 Keith moved to LA: Bill Shennum, personal communication and summary of records for Keith Bernand. See also Los Angeles Census Bureau.
p. 59 Fourteen years old: McKenzie 2009, 68.
p. 59 Dreiser pushes to end orphanages: Dreiser 1909.
p. 59 Orphanages burgeoning with castoffs: Zmore 2008.
p. 59 Rousseau abandoned bastards: Damrosch 2007, 191-195.
p. 59 Steve Jobs and daughter: Prince 2012.
p. 59 Sailed from Panama to New York: “S.S. Finance Manifest.”
p. 59 Cheaper than traveling overland: Martin 2011.
p. 59 Arrived at Ellis Island: U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, “Vessels Arriving at New York, NY, 1897-1957.”
PART II:
NEW YORK CITY AND BEYOND,
1908-1917
Chapter 8 — “Our Gifted Rebel Poet”
p. 63 Most famous anarchist: Reichert 1976, and letters from Goldman to Ridge, 1 and 2 Oct. 1908, 19 Aug. 1911.
p. 63 Goldman’s Yiddish lecture series: Falk 1996.
p. 63 Lewis may have introduced them: McCarron 1995, 6.
p. 63 Crowd of five thousand: Falk 1996.
p. 63 Goldman sailing for Australia: Falk 2005, 496.
p. 63 Hoping to live a quieter life: Goldman to Ben Reitman, 18 Sept. 1908, in Falk 2005, 370. See also Falk 1990, 78.
p. 64 Fleming promised her the funds: James 2002.
p. 64 She could never return: ibid.
p. 64 “Anarchism became the favorite doctrine”: qtd. in Avrich’s obituary, New York Times 24 Feb. 2006.
p. 64 Joyce, Shaw, and O’Neill, anarchists and pioneers of social justice: Avrich 2005, 146.
p. 64 “Every good person…an anarchist”: Avrich 2005, 147.
p. 64 “Liberty that consists in the full development”: Bakunin 1950/1870. Bakunin’s text is available via marxists.org. See also Marshall 2010, 292.
p. 64 Anarchists practicing violence: Avrich 1995, 483-504, and Avirch 2005, 84.
p. 64 Berkman’s attempted murder: Avrich and Avrich 2012, 106-108.
p. 64 “Red of comradeship”: qtd. in Wetzsteon 2003, 304.
p. 64 “An elderly lady in black silk”: Bruno 1921, 68.
p. 65 Havel another of her lovers: Communiqué from the Royal Prussian Police to the French Interior Ministry, Berlin, 12 Mar. 1900, qtd. in Ferguson 2011, 178. The communiqué reads, “Mr. Joseph-Hyp Havel…with whom she has lived for some time.”
p. 65 Havel practiced free love: Ferguson 2011, 31.
p. 65 Lived on 15th street: Bruno 1929, 69.
p. 65 “No true anarchist could destroy something”: ibid.
p. 65 America was in a recession: National Bureau of Economic Research, nber.org/cycles.
p. 65 “All the people on the edge”: Stansell 2009, 132.
p. 65 She drew one for Playboy: “I got Playboy and your drawing is beautifully reproduced.” Scott to Ridge 3 June [1921].
p. 65 “Hate to hurry you dear”: Goldman to Ridge, 1 Oct. 1908.
p. 65 “Patriotism a Menace to Liberty.” Ridge 1908, cover design.
p. 65 Goldman admonished her: Goldman to Ridge, 2 Oct. 1908.
p. 65 No ball until May of next year: Falk 2005, 423 fn 3.
p. 66 “Devoted to social science and literature”: Mother Earth, cover.
p. 66 Admission fee to the masked balls: Mother Earth Mar. 1911.
p. 66 “Capitalist press” and “false friends”: ibid.
p. 66 “Saturnine and dyspeptic lot”: “The Anarchists to Have a Ball,” New York Times, 19 Dec. 1909.
p. 66 “The Anarchists Slide”: Gornick 2011, 65.
p. 66 “A greater literary talent than any” Avrich 1978.
p. 66 “As aspen leaves quiver”: De Cleyre et al. 1914, 382.
p. 66 A future without gender: De Cleyre 1908.
p. 66 “Sex Slavery”: De Cleyre c.1890, http://praxeology.net/VC-SS.htm.
p. 66 De Cleyre’s son: Marsh 1981, 130.
p. 66 Theories about education, but little love: Reichert 1976, 341.
p. 66 Goldman too had a child: Falk 2005, 31.
p. 66 Goldman was critical of prolonged suffering: Ferguson 2011, 119.
p. 66 Parents not responsible for upbringing: Marsh 1981, 95.
p. 67 Child should be subjected to “the boycott”: Tucker 1893.
p. 67 Family at the root of inequality: Marsh 1981, 58-64.
p. 67 “Suffrage is an evil”: Goldman 1910, 197.
p. 67 Preferred education, espoused violence: “The Use of Violence” 2014.
p. 67 “The ballot hasn’t made man free”: De Cleyre c.1891 and De Cleyre 1896.
p. 67 Resembled Wollstonecraft: Avrich 1978, 14.
p. 67 “She had the same spirit”: qtd. in Avrich 1995, 212.
p. 67 Debilitating migraines: Goldman 2014/1932.
p. 67 “Capacity to conquer physical disability”: ibid.
p. 67 Such a meeting was possible: “People and Events: Voltairine de Cleyre” 2004.
p. 67 Job as an artist’s model: “Lola Ridge” in Quartermain 1987, 365.
p. 68 “Whitman posing in the nude”: Image 115, whitmanarchive.org.
p. 68 Going rate for modeling: Baldwin 2008, 93.
p. 68 $25 in 2014 currency: davemanuel.com/inflation-calculator.php.
p. 68 Published four covers: Albers 2002, 235.
p. 68 Died under suspicious circumstances: “Biography,” modotti.com.
p. 68 Heller was beaten unconscious: Schulman 2015.
p. 68 Wrote advertising copy: “Lola Ridge” in Quartermain 1987, 355.
p. 68 Advertising coming into its own: “History 1910-1920,” adage.com.
p. 69 “I got so I simply gagged”: Hart Crane to Charles Harris, 2 Dec. 1923.
p. 69 Where Goldman lived with Reitman: Falk 2005, 42.
p. 69 Thirty-seven-city tour: Falk 1996.
p. 70 Goldman smuggling contraceptives: “Birth Control: Emma Goldman” (2014).
p. 70 “Not your martyrs anointed of heaven”: Mother Earth 2 Apr. 1909, 33-34.
p. 70 “Clem o’ the Creek”: Ridge Nov. and Dec. 1909.
p. 71 “Through many strong climaxes…”: “The Magazines,” Evening Chronicle Charlotte 8 Nov. 1909, 4.
p. 71 Sold thirteen stories in America, seven in Gunter’s and successor: “The FictionMags Index,” philsp.com.
p. 71 Sir Henry Rider Haggard: “H. Rider Haggard,” booksforlearning.com.au.
p. 71 “The cities call me with a million lips”: Ridge July 1909, 801.
p. 71 Emma had read Ridge’s potboiler: Goldman to Ridge, 19 Aug. 1911.
p. 71 “Our gifted rebel poet”: Goldman 2011/1931, 706.
p. 71 “Remote and rather conventional themes”: Goldman to Ridge, 19 Aug. 1911.
p. 72 David Lawson to forward a note: ibid.
Chapter 9 — David Lawson and the Ferrer Center
p. 73 Met at the Ferrer Center: Avrich 1995, 198.
p. 73 Around five-four: Brady 2011, 64-65.
p. 73 “Always shabbily dressed…”: Scott 1923, 8. As a fictional character.
p. 73 Lawson nightly at the Ferrer: Avrich 1995, 199.
p. 73 “Attracted quite a few young Americans”: Goldman to Reitman, 27/28 July 1911.
p. 73 “Right by her side all the time”: Avrich 1995, 212.
p. 73 Capt. Will Whipple: “Charles William Matthew Howie or David Lawson,” genweb.whipple.org.
p. 73 Name given by father and mother: U.S. General Records of the Dept. of State.
p. 74 He settled on David: “David Lawson” (2005); Steinitz 2002, 19.
p. 74 Lawson had just moved to New York: Avrich 1995, 199.
p. 74 Gold tooth in his smile: Ridge to Lawson, 1 Oct. 1931.
p. 74 “An effective foil”: Drake 1987, 191.
p. 74 1925 census: New York State Census, 1 June 1925, ancestry.com.
p. 74 Work as an engineer: Berke 2000, 295.
p. 74 A toolmaker in 1918: U.S. Selective Service System.
p. 74 A machine designer in 1924: U.S. General Records of the Dept. of State.
p. 74 “Consulting engineer” in 1929: Thomas Aiello’s introduction to Lawson 2010/1976, xv.
p. 74 Took exams but never found a job: Lawson to Ridge, 7 Sept. 1929.
p. 74 Worked for the Board of Water Supply: Lawson to Ridge, 14 and 21 Aug. 1929.
p. 74 Civil engineer for NYC: U.S. Census, NYC, Kings County, Columbia Heights no. 387, 22 Apr. 1940, ancestry.com.
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