Story of a girl, born and raised in the slums, who studied in the library section G & H instead of going to high school, is raped and becomes a single mother hating men, criticizing former heroes, then succeeding as an advertising model and then as a beautician.

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Full description: The biography of a woman a 1913 graduate of Vassar and called our "Fortnigtliest of us all") who worked for Harpers, The New Yorker, and The Saturday Review of Literature and was a member of the Fortnightly Club of Chicago.

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An account of 1931 summer at Geneva School for Advanced International Studies and a trip to an Italian government mountaineering camp on the Italian side of Mount Blanc.

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A plane ride from New York to Chicago when Molly sat next to John Kenneth Galbraith who gave the author his manuscript to read and critique, a novel based on Adlai Stevenson. The author fills the paper with remembered conversation with Galbraith. The paper is very revealing of his character.

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A treatise on snakes (genus Ophidia), describing physical traits, mythical history, importance in different cultures and why humans have a visceral reaction to them. Also an account of the author's father's research on them and his taking rattle snakes to Orkney (Scotland).

Biographical material and a history of the American Socialist movement. Much of the paper uses quotes from letters by Walden to her daughter, letters which are in the Newberry collection.

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An autobiographical account of how the author became interested in politics at Madeira School (boarding school in Virginia) where Eleanor Roosevelt gave monthly lectures. Since that time she has almost always accepted a job, from poll-taking to Winnetka Village Council. She, her husband and also her father loved to have political debates since she is a Democrat and they are Republicans.

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The story of Illinois Governor (serving 1893-1897) John Peter Altgeld's wife and some other of the author's forebears.

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The life of Isabella (Belle) Gardener (1840-1944): poetess, actress, American art collector, and wife (x4). Study of how Belle's childhood and adult experiences are reflected in her poems and how her art grew and matured.

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Story of a woman who sees Jesus, is visited by the ghost of grandfather and who is able to persuade classmates to donate money to her alma mater.