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2 Pavel Orleneff (1869-1932): Russian actor who specialized in comic simpleton, vaudeville, and character roles. He tried to establish a public theater for the peasantry.
3 Alia Nazimova (born Adelaide Leventon) (1879-1941): Russian Jewish stage actress and silent film star.
CHAPTER XXIX
1 Matushka Rossiya: “Mother Russia.”
2 Black Hundreds was the popular name for the Union of the Russian People, a league of monarchists and nationalists who instigated pogroms and terror against the Russian revolutionaries.
3 Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1853-1917): great English character actor and theater manager.
4 the skin of Miss Smith: EG had adopted the pseudonym of E. G. Smith to help her promote the Orleneff theater troupe among liberals who might otherwise rebuff her as the notorious anarchist.
5 Hull House: founded in 1889 by American reformer Jane Addams (1860-1935). Located in Chicago’s Near West Side, the settlement house provided services for the neighborhood such as a kindergarten and day-care facilities, an employment bureau, art gallery, libraries, and classes in music and art.
6 In 1904 EG had rented part of an apartment at 210 East Thirteenth Street, which remained her home for ten years (see LML, 1970, 349-50).
7 the historic revolutionary month of March: Important events in the 1905 revolution in Russia occurred in March.
8 The Open Road: “The Song of the Open Road,” by the American poet Walt Whitman (1819-1892), was first published in Leaves of Grass in 1900.
9 the little farm: Located three and a half miles from Ossining, New York, this “small place in the country” was a gift to Goldman from libertarian Bolton Hall to provide a refuge at a time when she “was being pestered by landlords” (see LML, 1970, 371).
CHAPTER XXXI
1 Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906): Norwegian playwright whose exposure of the hypocrisy of conventional Victorian values was considered scandalous at the time.
CHAPTER XXXII
1 In 1908 Lazarus Overbuch, a recent Russian immigrant, attempted to take the life of the Chicago police chief. The national press claimed the attempt was linked to a widespread anarchist conspiracy. EG denied knowing Overbuch.
2 EG had earlier corresponded with Russian American Dr. Becky Yampolsky, who offered EG room in her home in Chicago when it seemed unlikely hotels would admit Goldman (see LML, 1970, 414).
3 Ben L. Reitman (1879-1942): American social reformer, physician, and writer.
4 See note I, “Overbuch.”
CHAPTER XXXIII
1 Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936): English short-story writer, novelist, and poet who romanticized the heroism of British colonial soldiers in India and Burma.
2 John “Chummy” Fleming (1863-1950): Australian anarchist, lecturer, and labor organizer who agitated among the unemployed.
3 Johan Boyer (1872-1959): Norwegian novelist and dramatist who often wrote about the lives of poor farmers and fishermen.
CHAPTER XXXIV
1 William Buwalda: At the conclusion of an address the previous year in San Francisco on the meaning of patriotism, EG was publicly thanked by a man in uniform. He was later identified to her as William Buwalda, a soldier who was arrested for “attending Emma Goldman’s meeting and for shaking hands with her” (see LML, 1970, 428-29).
2 Among the sensational reports: On their way to a speech in San Francisco, EG and Ben Reitman were arrested and jailed on numerous charges, including conspiracy and disturbing the peace. The trial ended in acquittal with EG claiming that the arrest “did more for anarchism than months of propaganda might have accomplished” (see LML, 1970, 444-48).
CHAPTER XXXVI
1 Jack London (1876-1916): American novelist and short-story writer. He often wrote about the individual in a struggle for survival against the powers of nature. In 1910, London purchased a large tract of land near Glen Ellen in Sonoma County, California.
2 the Ferrer Association: The Spanish anarchist Francisco Ferrer (1849-1909)