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Title Page
Copyright Page
Introduction
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII
CHAPTER XVIII
CHAPTER XIX
CHAPTER XX
CHAPTER XXI
CHAPTER XXII
CHAPTER XXIII
CHAPTER XXIV
CHAPTER XXV
CHAPTER XXVI
CHAPTER XXVII
CHAPTER XXVIII
CHAPTER XXIX
CHAPTER XXX
CHAPTER XXXI
CHAPTER XXXII
CHAPTER XXXIII
CHAPTER XXXIV
CHAPTER XXXV
CHAPTER XXXVI
CHAPTER XXXVII
CHAPTER XXXVIII
CHAPTER XXXIX
CHAPTER XL
CHAPTER XLI
CHAPTER XLII
CHAPTER XLIII
CHAPTER XLIV
CHAPTER XLV
CHAPTER XLVI
CHAPTER XLVII
CHAPTER XLVIII
CHAPTER XLIX
CHAPTER L
CHAPTER LI
CHAPTER LII
CHAPTER LIII
CHAPTER LIV
CHAPTER LV
CHAPTER LVI
Notes
Index
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LIVING MY LIFE
EMMA GOLDMAN (1869-1940) was a Russian-Jewish anarchist lecturer and writer who rose to prominence in the United States, the home to which she had immigrated as a young woman. A passionate orator, a defender of the struggles of labor for better working conditions, Goldman crossed America to advocate resistance to the tyranny of any form of government. Dismissive of the woman suffrage campaign, Goldman lent her support to the birth control and free-love movements. With the proceeds of her popular lectures on modern drama, she supported Mother Earth, the newspaper she founded in 1905. Mother Earth was a primary platform for anarchist theory until it was closed down in 1917, a victim of the Espionage Act of that year, making it illegal to speak disloyally of the military or to obstruct the draft. After frequent imprisonments for inciting to riot and speaking against the American entry into World War I, Goldman was deported as an “alien” in 1919. After her deportation, she resided temporarily in the Soviet Union, whose Bolshevik Revolution she came to regard as a tragic failure. She lived in Europe as a stateless exile, finding refuge finally in Canada at the end of her life.
MIRIAM BRODY is the editor of the Penguin edition of Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. She has written biographies of Mary Wollstonecraft (2000) and the nineteenth-century American free-love advocate Victoria Wood-hull (2003). Her other works include Manly Writing: Gender, Rhetoric, and the Rise of Composition (1993). She resides in Ithaca, New York.
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First published in the United States of America in two volumes by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. 1931
This condensed edition with an introduction and notes by Miriam Brody
published in Penguin Books 2006
Condensation, introduction, and notes copyright © Miriam Brody, 2006 All rights reserved
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Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940.
Living my life / Emma Goldman ; introduction and notes by Miriam Brody.
p. cm.
Abridgement of author’s 2 vol. Work originally published: New York : Knopf, 1931.
Includes bibliographical references
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