Eleanor Roosevelt

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He would come for visits and send her gifts.
His life of sobriety, didn't last long. Once on a visit with Eleanor, went into a tavern and told her to wait outside. Six hours later, she saw him being carried out and helped into a passing cab. As soon as Grandmother Hall found out about his latest fiasco, she discouraged even the shortest of visits. Hall received a letter from him saying that he had a feeling that he could not overcome and that he did not want to see anyone. Shortly after receiving that letter, Mr. Roosevelt lapsed into a drunken coma, and died. After her aunts broke her the news, Eleanor cried and cried, and retorted into a dream world to live in.
Eleanor was taught her lessons by private tutors, up until she turned fifteen. Her mother had wanted her to receive part of her education in Europe, so granting her daughters wish, Ms. Hall sent Eleanor to Allenswood, a finishing school just outside of London. At the end of her first day, she had already made a ...

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wanted to do more. Eleanor was among those sensitive, caring women. She and her friend, Jean Reid, taught classes on Manhattan's Lower East Side, at Rivington Street Settlement House. Jean played the piano, and Eleanor gave calisthenic and fancy dancing to the daughters of Jewish and Italian immigrants.
She soon joined another reform group, the Consumers League. It investigated working conditions on young, female wage earners. Her only experience with working women being with washerwomen, maids, and cooks; she now traveled with experienced league members to factories and department stores were women worked twelve to fourteen hours a day, six days a week, six dollars a week. Soon ...

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