Eleanor Roosevelt conducted a parallel life beyond the view of most of the American people, despite occupying the most prominent role for a woman in the country at that time. She maintained two different apartments in Washington Square in New York before and after the White House years and thereby opened the way to a host of new friends and renewed purpose. ER’s reinvention was a remarkable one, sparked, on one reading, by physically removing herself from the constraints of husband and family and surrounding herself with a coterie of women who rejoiced in the intellectual, the cultural and the political. In doing so, she herself was transformed.
Show Notes:

Eleanor in the Village by Jan Jarboe Russell
Allenswood Boarding Academy
Esther Lape
Elizabeth Reed
Doris Kearns Goodwin's book "No Ordinary Time"
Virginia Woolf's "A Room of One's Own"
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