American anarchist activist and prostitute
Almeda Sperry |
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| Born | Almeda Sode
July 13, 1879
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| Died | 10 September 1957(1957-09-10) (aged 78)
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| Nationality | American |
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| Occupation | Political activist |
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| Known for | Wrote passionate love letters to fellow anarchist Emma Goldman |
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Almeda Sperry (1879–1957) was an American anarchist, political activist, and former prostitute.[1] She is known for the passionate love letters she wrote to fellow anarchist Emma Goldman.[2] The letters allude to past sexual encounters between the two women, although the extent to which Goldman may have reciprocated the romantic feelings expressed by Sperry is unknown.[3][4]
- ^ Brownmiller, Susan. "Red Emma—The private life of a (not quite) public woman." White Plains, New York: The Journal News, November 4, 1984, p. 95 (subscription required).
- ^ Card, Claudia. Lesbian Choices, p. 63. New York, New York: Columbia University Press, 1995.
- ^ Katz, Jonathan Ned. "Almeda Sperry to Emma Goldman: 1912". OutHistory. Retrieved May 1, 2015.
- ^ Marso, Lori J. "Considering Emma Goldman: Feminist Political Ambivalence and the Imaginative Archive. By Clare Hemmings. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018," in Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Vol. 45, No. 3, pp. 775-776. Chicago, Illinois: The University of Chicago Press, 2020.