Eleanor Roosevelt

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was born on October 11, 1884, in New York City, into a family of wealth and sorrow. Her mother, a celebrated beauty, made Eleanor feel plain and inadequate; her father, Elliott Roosevelt, was charming and alcoholic, and she adored him even as his addiction destroyed him. Her mother died of diphtheria when Eleanor was eight; her father died two years later. She was raised by a stern grandmother, found her first real happiness at a boarding school in England, and returned to New York to enter society as a shy, serious young woman more interested in settlement house work than debutante balls. At twenty, she married her fifth cousin once removed, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. They had six children, five of whom survived. In 1918, Eleanor discovered that Franklin was having an affair with her social secretary, Lucy Mercer.

Eleanor Roosevelt is best known as a diplomat. American political figure, diplomat, and activist; First Lady who later chaired the UN committee that drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Eleanor Roosevelt lived 1884-1962 CE, born in 1884 and died in 1962, during the modern period.

Yes, free. Anyone can ask Eleanor Roosevelt, and a first question needs no account. Every answer is a Simulation in character, grounded in Eleanor Roosevelt’s real life, work and era. A good first question is: "How do I find the courage to speak up when I feel intimidated and unqualified?"