[Alumni-chat] Antiochiana/ Elbert Hubbard

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In a message dated 9/9/2007 9:48:07 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  sjr5 at nyu.edu 
writes:

This gal  could have been a terrific Antioch undergrad, given the 
>chance (she  never atended school or had group education, ever.  All 
>her  education came from private tutors!).
>



No, actually she attended a very fine quite modern school near  London.  Her 
great sadness was that her family (remember both her parents  were dead, and 
TR was her guardian as her Father had been TR's brother) wanted  her to make 
her debut in New York.  Eleanor wanted to finish her last year  at Allenswood 
School, and then move on to University in Paris, where she had  already been 
recommended, but it was not her decision.  TR was not yet  President -- but it 
was his decision along with her Hall grandmother, to bring  her back to New York 
for the Coming Out Season.  
 
One really can't quite comprehend Eleanor Roosevelt without understanding  
how she felt constrained by the rituals of class and gender.  Along with  the 
loss of both her parents it was also her inability to set her own course in  
life that always was a great sorrow.  Being forced give up formal education  to 
make a debut in New York Society was only one of those sorrows.  



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