Lorena Hickok

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'''Lorena Alice Hickok''' (1893-1968), alleged lesbian lover of Eleanor Roosevelt.
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'''Lorena Alice Hickok''' (1893-1968), journalist, author and alleged lesbian lover of [[Eleanor Roosevelt]], wife of [[Franklin D Roosevelt]], US President.
  
Lorena was born [[Mar 7]], 1893 in Grant County, [[Wisconsin]], the daughter and eldest child of Addison J Hickok (1864-1932) and his wife Anna Adelsa Waite (1870-1906).  Addison and Anna had married April 1891 in Elkhorn, Walworth County, Wisconsin.
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Her mother died [[Sep 16]], 1906 in Bowdle, [[South Dakota]] of a stroke, leaving her husband and three daughters: Lorena, Ruby and Myrtle.  Doris Faber prints in her book, the obituary of Anna (Waite) Hickok from the Sep 20 issue of the Bowdle ''Pioneer''About fifteen months later, on [[Jan 1]], 1908, her father Addison married again to Emma Flashman in Brown County, South Dakota.
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Lorena was born 7 Mar 1893 in Grant County, [[Wisconsin]], the daughter and eldest child of Addison J Hickok (1864-1932) and his wife Anna Adelsa Waite (1870-1906).  Addison and Anna had married April 1891 in Elkhorn, Walworth County, Wisconsin.
  
Lorena is reported to have been an extra step-daughter in a family who didn't really care for her.  Her father abusive and violent, her step-mother detached and uninterestedLorena found her own way by working sometimes as a live-in housemaid until she moved in with remote family membersLorena started in journalism and this is eventually how she managed to meet Eleanor Roosevelt.  Some biographers of both her and Eleanor state that they clearly had a romantic and probably sexual relationship, others are not quite so committed to the sexual nature, including Eleanor's daughter Anna.
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Lorena's mother Anna died 16 Sep 1906 in Bowdle, [[South Dakota]] of a stroke, leaving her husband and three daughters: Lorena, Ruby and MyrtleDoris Faber prints in her book, the obituary of Anna (Waite) Hickok from the Sep 20 issue of the Bowdle ''Pioneer''About fifteen months later, on 1 Jan 1908, her father Addison married again to Emma Flashman in Brown County, South Dakota.
  
Lorena Hickok died [[May 1]], 1968, age seventy-five.
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Lorena is reported to have been an extra mouth in a family who didn't really care for her.  Her father abusive and violent, her step-mother detached and uninterested.  Lorena found her own way by working sometimes as a live-in housemaid until she moved in with remote family members.  Lorena started in journalism and this is eventually how she managed to meet Eleanor Roosevelt about 1932.  Lorena deposited a large volume of letters writen by both herself and Eleanor, to each other, into the Roosevelt Library, to be opened only ten years after Lorena's death.
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When the letters were opened, biographers were stunned.  The letters would seem to clearly indicate a deep and personal relationship between them.  Some biographers of both her and Eleanor state that they clearly had a romantic and probably sexual relationship, others are not quite so committed to the sexual nature, including Eleanor's daughter Anna.
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Lorena Hickok died 1 May 1968, age seventy-five.
  
 
==Primary documents==
 
==Primary documents==

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