Trailblazing Lorena Hickok started working as a reporter in 1912, at a time when it was not about 1 out of 5 women in the United States jobs outside the home, and the right to vote was years away. It was the profession that prompted Hikok to a person who changed her career and personal life forever: Elianor Roosevelt.
In the new biography “Heck“The title is the poem of its topic, the author Sarah Miller Hikok’s poor education in the Middle West, its brilliant professional life in the largest cities of the country and the relationship that will come to determine its legacy.
Miller said she was an inspiration to write about Hikok and her association with Roosevelt after reading conflicting novels about the nature of her decades’ relationship. Women exchanged messages with each other, and sometimes twice a day, from 1932 until the death of Roosevelt in 1962. Hikok donated thousands of these messages to the Franklin de Roosevelt library in Hyde Park, New York, and was published in 1978, after a decade of her death. Their 30-year correspondence presented a unique vision in their relationship, but those who read the messages and continued to write about them after that, explaining them in completely different ways-from Platonic to very romantic.
“Then you read all these things, and if you are a person like me, you love,” well, but who is right? What is this relationship, truly? The best way to do this is to go and read the messages, all, with your own eyes. “
While searching for “Heck”, who comes out on Tuesday, Miller read about 3500 messages between the two women. Its conclusion is located on the romantic side of the spectrum, but romance is rooted in friendship.
“They loved each other,” Miller said. “It is really difficult to be completely objective, but there is no doubt that they were lifelong and intimate friends, and I think this is the basis for the relationship.”
In one letter adapted in the book, on March 5, 1933, the day after the opening of her first husband, Roosevelt wrote: “Heck, dear, I cannot go to bed at night without there being an empty word.
The next day, Roosevelt Hikok told: “I can’t accept you, so I accept your picture is a good night and good morning.” In another message of this week, Roosevelt mentions the sapphire episode and the wound that Hikok gave and wrote: “Your ring is a great comfort, look at her and I think she loves me, or I will not wear it!”
Women seem to hide the level of their closeness to others, including how to connect their love to French. In one letter in 1933, Roosevelt, her teenage son mentions, she writes: “Heck, my love, oh, how good it was to hear your voice, it was inappropriate to try to tell you what it means, Jimmy was soon and I could not say” Ji Time AG Tador “because I was yearning for his action but I always remember that I say that and go to sleep and repeat our little saying.”
While it seems that there is a consensus among historians that Hikok was only interested in romance in women, some caution against interpreting its correspondence with Roosevelt through a contemporary lens.
In her book “Politzer’s Prize winner,” No Normal Time “, historian Doris Kirins Judwin admitted that their messages contained At least one study Women in the Roosevelt era showed the use of romantic and even sensory discourse to communicate with female friends.
But history has a means of “direct washing” homosexuality in the past. This practice was born until popular Internet joke“Historians will say they are just good friends.”
