pay nor pensions are to be provided for those who choose to make man-killing a trade". Legacy As one of the few women of stature in the anarchist movement, de Cleyre was acclaimed by Emma Goldman as "the most gifted and brilliant anarchist woman America ever produced". She is not widely known today, which biographer Sharon Presley attributes to the shortness of her life. Since the late 20th century, there has been renewed interest in her. An American Anarchist: The Life of Voltairine de Cleyre, written by Paul Avrich, was published by the Princeton University Press in 1978. A collection of her speeches, The First Mayday: The Haymarket Speeches, 1895–1910, was published by the Libertarian Book Club in 1980. In 2004, AK Press released The Voltairine de Cleyre Reader. In 2005, two more collections of her speeches and articles were published, namely Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine De Cleyre – Anarchist, Feminist, Genius, edited by Presley and Crispin Sartwell and published by SUNY Press; and Gates of Freedom: Voltairine De Cleyre and the Revolution of the Mind, from University of Michigan Press. Her papers are held at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York City. In 2018, The New York Times published a belated obituary for her. See also Bill Haywood Dyer D. Lum Emma Goldman Eugene V. Debs Haymarket affair Henry David Thoreau Rachelle Yarros The writing on the wall influenced de Cleyre's Written in Red References Bibliography Further reading Palczewski, Catherine Helen. 1995. "Voltairine de Cleyre: Sexual Slavery and Sexual Pleasure in the Nineteenth Century". NWSA (National Women's Studies Association) Journal, Vol. 7, No. 3 (Autumn 1995), pp. 54–68. External links Voltairine.org. . Website about Voltairine de Cleyre, including articles and biography. Poems by Voltairine De Cleyre from the Daily Bleed De Cleyre, Voltairine (1894). "In Defense of Emma Goldman and the Right of Expropriation". Voltairine de Cleyre at the Molinari Institute Voltairine de Cleyre at Panarchy 1866 births 1912 deaths 19th-century American essayists 19th-century American non-fiction writers 19th-century American women writers 19th-century atheists 20th-century American essayists 20th-century American women writers 20th-century atheists American anarchists American anti-capitalists American anti-war activists American atheists American libertarians American women essayists American women non-fiction writers American women philosophers Anarcha-feminists Anarchist theorists Anarchist writers Anarchists without adjectives Burials at Forest Home Cemetery, Chicago Deaths from meningitis Free love advocates Freethought writers Individualist feminists Left-libertarians Libertarian socialists Neurological disease deaths in