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An unnamed contributor changed my description from
"...anAmerican journalist and confidant of Eleanor Roosevelt with whom she had a romantic relationship starting in 1928"
"...an American journalist and confidant of Eleanor Roosevelt with whom she probably had a romantic relationship starting in 1928" (emphasis added)
I have reverted it. This is as well established a historic fact as any, and the only reason anyone would put it in question is the unreasonably high standard with which we judge homosexual relationships as opposed to heterosexual relationships.
Roosevelt's relationship with Lorena Hickok is testified to in countless documentation, including over 2000 letters written by Roosevelt to "Hick" that include such sentiments as "I wish I could lie down beside you and take you in my arms. I can't kiss you so I kiss your picture good night and good morning," as well as letters from Hickok to Roosevelt, including "I love the feeling of that soft spot just northeast of the corner of your mouth against my lips."
In these letters the two women discuss a future in which they would share a home and blend their lives into one.
Blanche Wiesen Cook, Eleanor Roosevelt's biographer, said in an interview with PBS "Well, the fact is, we can never know what people do in the privacy of their own rooms. The door is closed. The blinds are drawn. We don't know. I leave it up to the reader. But there's no doubt in my mind that they loved each other, and this was an ardent, loving relationship between two adult women" Jliberty 13:12, Feb 7, 2005 (UTC)
Roosevelt due to the simple fact that this was not suggested during the time of their intense relationship. Mrs. Roosevelt also would not put her career plans on hold for the woman she "loved." If Eleanor Roosevelt truly loved this woman, she would have done everything in her powers to make this lady happy and to be with her. That's how a relationship works, I know for a fact a heterosexual relationship does, and probably so does a homosexualrelationship. Love is a game of give and take and many, many compromises. 04:38, May 31, 2005 (UTC)
Hickok & Roosevelt A Love Story
Interview with Blanche Wiessen Cook
Blanche Weisen Cook: A Tribute to Lorena Hickok (audio)
Empty without You: The Intimate Letters of Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok
It doesn't surprise me that they were in a romantic relationship. Eleanor was a free woman to herself and needed someone and more than a friendship , a lover. I have read all the books written about both woman. Being a lesbian myself in the early 1990's , in my area I had to keep it to myself. Often woman get married before they realize their true feelings. It must have been so hard trying to work around your emotions with the entire world watching. For Lorena to stand behind her and push her own feelings aside... is more than any man would have done for her.
Janet Smith
The biography jumps all over the place. Hopefully someone can clean it up with a smooth chronologic flow or some other useful presentation. As it is, it appears confused. Wjhonson ( talk) 22:40, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
I think this page may concentrate too much on the nature of the relationship between Lorena Hickok and Eleanor Roosevelt, and not enough on Hickok's wider role in the New Deal. There is lengthy detail about her in David M. Kennedy's 'Freedom from Fear' [see chapters 6 and 7], which are perhaps more relevant than the nature of her relationship with Roosevelt. Sophie fm ( talk) 15:27, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
An editor just moved the reported lesbian relationship between Roosevelt and Hickok out of the lead section. Before I revert again, I thought I'd ask here why this happened. This relationship is the subject of exhaustive commentary and study, and the lead to this article is currently only two sentences long and in obvious need of expansion. Why should this not be included? Hick's relationship with ER is by far and away the most notable thing about her. (Her biography, for example, is subtitled "E.R.'s friend".) It seems quite reasonable to mention the debated nature of that relationship in the lead section, no? -- Khazar2 ( talk) 21:24, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
I've done a major expansion and rewrite of this article in the past 24 hours with an eye toward trying to make this a Good Article. Input from other editors on these changes would be great, particularly if you own the Faber biography, to which I don't have access. Thanks everybody, -- Khazar2 ( talk) 20:27, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
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Open review. Will start soon! Best wishes, MathewTownsend ( talk) 19:48, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
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Really, this is a wonderful article. I could criticize certain parts (e.g. Goodwin pages 223-224 seems to present a case that Eleanor was not homosexual, or primarily so) but I'm sure that discussion could go on and on. You have presented a concise summary of Hickok's life. Much appreciated!
GA review-see WP:WIAGA for criteria (and here for what they are not)
Great job! MathewTownsend ( talk) 23:33, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
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Pegmoody ( talk) 16:08, 15 March 2016 (UTC)
She enrolled at the University of Minnesota, leaving upon being forced to live in a women's dormitory.
The leading section describes her as a "devoted Friend and Mentor" to Eleanor Roosevelt, which seems a bit like burying the lede 138.88.143.26 ( talk) 08:10, 26 December 2022 (UTC)
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An unnamed contributor changed my description from
"...anAmerican journalist and confidant of Eleanor Roosevelt with whom she had a romantic relationship starting in 1928"
"...an American journalist and confidant of Eleanor Roosevelt with whom she probably had a romantic relationship starting in 1928" (emphasis added)
I have reverted it. This is as well established a historic fact as any, and the only reason anyone would put it in question is the unreasonably high standard with which we judge homosexual relationships as opposed to heterosexual relationships.
Roosevelt's relationship with Lorena Hickok is testified to in countless documentation, including over 2000 letters written by Roosevelt to "Hick" that include such sentiments as "I wish I could lie down beside you and take you in my arms. I can't kiss you so I kiss your picture good night and good morning," as well as letters from Hickok to Roosevelt, including "I love the feeling of that soft spot just northeast of the corner of your mouth against my lips."
In these letters the two women discuss a future in which they would share a home and blend their lives into one.
Blanche Wiesen Cook, Eleanor Roosevelt's biographer, said in an interview with PBS "Well, the fact is, we can never know what people do in the privacy of their own rooms. The door is closed. The blinds are drawn. We don't know. I leave it up to the reader. But there's no doubt in my mind that they loved each other, and this was an ardent, loving relationship between two adult women" Jliberty 13:12, Feb 7, 2005 (UTC)
Roosevelt due to the simple fact that this was not suggested during the time of their intense relationship. Mrs. Roosevelt also would not put her career plans on hold for the woman she "loved." If Eleanor Roosevelt truly loved this woman, she would have done everything in her powers to make this lady happy and to be with her. That's how a relationship works, I know for a fact a heterosexual relationship does, and probably so does a homosexualrelationship. Love is a game of give and take and many, many compromises. 04:38, May 31, 2005 (UTC)
Hickok & Roosevelt A Love Story
Interview with Blanche Wiessen Cook
Blanche Weisen Cook: A Tribute to Lorena Hickok (audio)
Empty without You: The Intimate Letters of Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok
It doesn't surprise me that they were in a romantic relationship. Eleanor was a free woman to herself and needed someone and more than a friendship , a lover. I have read all the books written about both woman. Being a lesbian myself in the early 1990's , in my area I had to keep it to myself. Often woman get married before they realize their true feelings. It must have been so hard trying to work around your emotions with the entire world watching. For Lorena to stand behind her and push her own feelings aside... is more than any man would have done for her.
Janet Smith
The biography jumps all over the place. Hopefully someone can clean it up with a smooth chronologic flow or some other useful presentation. As it is, it appears confused. Wjhonson ( talk) 22:40, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
I think this page may concentrate too much on the nature of the relationship between Lorena Hickok and Eleanor Roosevelt, and not enough on Hickok's wider role in the New Deal. There is lengthy detail about her in David M. Kennedy's 'Freedom from Fear' [see chapters 6 and 7], which are perhaps more relevant than the nature of her relationship with Roosevelt. Sophie fm ( talk) 15:27, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
An editor just moved the reported lesbian relationship between Roosevelt and Hickok out of the lead section. Before I revert again, I thought I'd ask here why this happened. This relationship is the subject of exhaustive commentary and study, and the lead to this article is currently only two sentences long and in obvious need of expansion. Why should this not be included? Hick's relationship with ER is by far and away the most notable thing about her. (Her biography, for example, is subtitled "E.R.'s friend".) It seems quite reasonable to mention the debated nature of that relationship in the lead section, no? -- Khazar2 ( talk) 21:24, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
I've done a major expansion and rewrite of this article in the past 24 hours with an eye toward trying to make this a Good Article. Input from other editors on these changes would be great, particularly if you own the Faber biography, to which I don't have access. Thanks everybody, -- Khazar2 ( talk) 20:27, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
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Reviewer: MathewTownsend ( talk · contribs) 19:48, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
Open review. Will start soon! Best wishes, MathewTownsend ( talk) 19:48, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
(beginning)
Really, this is a wonderful article. I could criticize certain parts (e.g. Goodwin pages 223-224 seems to present a case that Eleanor was not homosexual, or primarily so) but I'm sure that discussion could go on and on. You have presented a concise summary of Hickok's life. Much appreciated!
GA review-see WP:WIAGA for criteria (and here for what they are not)
Great job! MathewTownsend ( talk) 23:33, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
![]() | This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest was declined. The request was not specific enough. You may consider leaving your comments on the Talk page or escalating significant issues to the conflict of interest noticeboard. |
Pegmoody ( talk) 16:08, 15 March 2016 (UTC)
She enrolled at the University of Minnesota, leaving upon being forced to live in a women's dormitory.
The leading section describes her as a "devoted Friend and Mentor" to Eleanor Roosevelt, which seems a bit like burying the lede 138.88.143.26 ( talk) 08:10, 26 December 2022 (UTC)