Review
“McElroy brings both fondness and frankness to Silver’s work…” — Los Angeles Times, November 1, 2000″Profound biography of one of America’s most amazing feminist thinkers.” — Foreword, November 1999″This fascinating biography includes some of Silver’s salient articles and talks.” — Utne Reader, May/June, 2000
This is a fiery and profound biography of one of America’s most amazing feminist thinkers, a woman who remained an active advocate of intellectual independence to the moment of her death in 1998 at the age of 86. Prolific feminist writer Wendy McElroy sympathetically chronicles the life of Queen Silver from personal interviews with her friends, published reports, letters, and a vast library of the family’s personal papers. What emerges is a life like none other. A well-known thinker by the time she was 11-years-old, giving speeches titled ‘Pioneers of Freethought’, ‘The Rights of Children’, and ‘Science and the Workers’, Queen challeng (more…)
