Eleanor Roosevelt was a very important woman in our history. She overcame her problems with her husband to help end the Great Depression. She not only worked against the depression but she was a pioneer in the fight for women's rights. She also helped people by writing her daily column "My Day" which touched many peoples lives.
             Eleanor Roosevelt was born in 1884 into a wealthy New York family. Eleanor's mother was disappointed because Eleanor was not beautiful and graceful. Eleanor developed "an inordinate desire for affection and praise" (The American Experience) in response to her plain looks and lack of manners "Eleanor's greatest wish was to please her father" (Freedman p. 9) Eleanor's father found no fault in her looks, and Eleanor was completely devoted to him. "She enjoyed dressing up and dancing for her father and his friends as a young child." (The American Experience) In 1892 Eleanor's mother died of diphtheria and Eleanor happily moved in with her father, who she was separated from when her parents were divorced because of her fathers drinking problems. Two years later her father died of alcoholism. Then Eleanor moved in with her grandmother. In 1899 Eleanor's grandmother sent her to Allenswood and all girls boarding school in England. "There Eleanor began to develop some assertiveness. Then one of her teachers chose Eleanor to be her traveling partner in Europe, and Eleanor was introduced to a lifestyle of and independent women" (The American Experience). She returned home in 1902. Three years later Eleanor fell in love and was married to her fifth cousin Franklin Roosevelt. Shortly after Roosevelt and Eleanor were married Franklins over protective mother, started to control Eleanor. " I was beginning to be and entirely dependent person," Eleanor said, "Someone always to decide everything for me.' (The America...