Selected Works of Voltairine De Cleyre

Gathered and published in 1914, two years after her death, this volume brings together the essays, lectures, poems, and stories of one of American anarchism’s most eloquent voices. Voltairine de Cleyre wrote on liberty, women’s equality, direct action, and the crushing weight of poverty and the state, always in prose sharpened by moral urgency and a poet’s ear. Her friend Alexander Berkman edited the collection, and Hippolyte Havel’s long memoir opens it, setting her radical life against the labor struggles of her age. Read today, the pieces on women’s independence and the conscience of the individual still land with force. A free PDF and EPUB edition is available here.