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EleanorRooseveltwastheFirstLadyoftheUnitedStatesfrom1933to1945.ShesupportedtheNewDealpoliciesofherhusband,FranklinDelanoRoosevelt,andbecameanadvocateforcivilrights.Afterherhusbandsdeathin1945,Rooseveltcontinuedtobeaninternationalauthor,speaker,politician,andactivistfortheNewDealcoalition.
Evenat14,Rooseveltunderstoodthatonesprospectsinlifewerenottotallydependentonphysicalbeauty,writingwistfullythatnomatterhowplainawomanmaybeiftruthandloyaltyarestampeduponherfaceallwillbeattractedtoher.
Rooseveltwastutoredprivatelyand,attheageof15,withtheencouragementofherfatherssister,herauntBamie,thefamilydecidedtosendhertoAllenswoodAcademy,aprivatefinishingschooloutsideLondon,England.Theheadmistress,MarieSouvestre,wasanotedfeministeducatorwhosoughttocultivateindependentthinkingintheyoungwomeninhercharge.EleanorlearnedtospeakFrenchfluentlyandgainedself-confidence.Herfirst-cousinCorinneRobinson,whosefirsttermatAllenswoodoverlappedwithEleanorslast,saidthatwhenshearrivedattheschool,Eleanorwaseverything.ShewouldlaterstudyatTheNewSchoolinthe1920s.
In1902atage17,RooseveltreturnedtotheUnitedStates,endingherformaleducation.OnDecember14,1902,RooseveltwaspresentedatadebutanteballattheWaldorf-Astoriahotel.Shewaslatergivenadebutanteparty.AsamemberofTheNewYorkJuniorLeague,shevolunteeredasasocialworkerintheEastSideslumsofNewYork.RooseveltwasamongtheLeaguesearliestmembers,havingbeenintroducedtotheorganizationbyherfriend,andorganizationfounder,MaryHarriman.
