Queen Silver : The Godless Girl (Women's Studies (Amherst, N.Y.) Review
Queen Silver : The Godless Girl (Women's Studies (Amherst, N.Y.) Feature
This is a fiery and profound biography of one of America's most amazing feminist thinkers, a woman who remained an active advocate of intellectual independence to the moment of her death in 1998 at the age of 86. Prolific feminist writer Wendy McElroy sympathetically chronicles the life of Queen Silver from personal interviews with her friends, published reports, letters, and a vast library of the family's personal papers. What emerges is a life like none other. A well-known thinker by the time she was 11-years-old, giving speeches titled 'Pioneers of Freethought', 'The Rights of Children', and 'Science and the Workers', Queen challenged three-time presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan to a debate on evolution (he declined); organised an atheist group at her high school; and left home at 15 to marry a doctor three-times her age, which later became the source of a highly publicised divorce.
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