Born in the Russian Federation in 1869, Emma Goldman emigrated to the United States in 1885 and became an influential political activist and anarchist in the first decades of the twentieth century. From 1893 to 1917, Emma Goldman delivered numerous and controversial lectures regarding anarchism, women’s rights, patriotism, and labor conditions. In addition to her efforts on the lecture circuit, in 1906 Goldman established the anarchist journal Mother Earth, which she edited in New York City’s bohemian center of Greenwich Village. In 1910 several of Goldman’s Mother Earth pieces were collected in the anthology Anarchism and Other Essays.