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Notes
Epigraph
“Let anything that burns” Tante 1935, 341.
PART I:
DUBLIN, SYDNEY, HOKITIKA, SYDNEY, SAN FRANCISCO,
1873–1907
Chapter 1 — “One of Them”
p. 3 “That’s Lola Ridge!”: Porter 1977.
p. 3 Newspapers announce Ridge’s presence: “Plan to Picket Prison,” Lincoln Evening Journal 10 Aug. 1927.
p. 3 “Get them good and proper”: Watson 2008, 160.
p. 3 No re-trial: D’Attilio 1998.
p. 4 “Ought to be a just people”: Watson 2008, 184.
p. 4 Ten thousand mourners, footage destroyed: D’Attilio 2013.
p. 4 “Awaiting the falling/Cataract of the hooves”: Ridge 1935, 75-76.
p. 4 Monroe and William Rose Benét call Ridge a genius: Dunbar 1948, 192, and 1933, 52.
p. 4 “Early, great chronicler”: Pinsky 2011.
p. 5 Likened to the Dickinson’s: Kreymborg 1918/1919.
p. 5 Presided over hotshot salons: Hively 2003, 72.
p. 5 Ridge the editor of Others: Churchill 2006, 56.
p. 5 Eating, drinking, flirting, planning, reading, and stomping: Mariani 1990, 247.
p. 5 Speech in Chicago: Ridge 1919.
p. 5 “man’s natural inferior”: Ridge 1981/1919, 18.
p. 5 Editing Sanger’s magazine: The Birth Control Review May, June, July, Aug., and Sept. of 1918, New York City.
p. 5 Reciting her own poems: Goldman 2011/1931, 710, and Avrich 2012, 293-294.
p. 5 Arrested during demonstration: Marks 1929, 9.
p. 5 Solidarity in Mexico City: Ridge to Lawson, 6 May 1936.
p. 5 Ridge’s obituary: New York Times 22 May 1941.
p. 6 Elitism of Eliot and Pound: Chevalier 1997, “Pound, Ezra,” 671.
p. 6 Two anthologies, work not revived: Berke 2001, 83. The anthologies are The Women Poets in English (1972), edited by Ann Stanford, and The World Split Open (1974), edited by Louise Bernikow.
p. 6 “The buried history”: Bernikow 1974, 45.
p. 6 “Something you feel intensely”: Tante 1935, 341.
p. 6 “Even sophisticates…”: Rev. of Modernist Women Poets: An Anthology, eds. Robert Hass and Paul Ebenkamp, publishersweekly.com.
p. 6 “Irish race of Princes”: Stephens, A.G. Mitchell Library. “Autobiographies of 231 Australian and New Zealand Authors and Artists, 1901–1924.” 994.
p. 7 Proof of royal descent: Eliza McLennan, personal communication. 5 June 2013. The document was Donovan’s Annals of Ireland.
p. 7 Verified by the Biographical Society of Ireland: E. McLennan, personal communication. 5 June 2013.
p. 7 “I, John Reilly…”: E. McLennan, personal communication. 5 June 2013.
p. 7 Built around Loughrea Lake: “Loughrea,” Slater’s Dictionary of Ireland, 18.
p. 7 Joseph H. Ridge: Pettigrew and Oulton’s Dublin Almanac, 1842, 515.
p. 7 Famine and decimation: “Portumna Workhouse,” irishworkhousecentre.ie, and McLaughlin 2013.
p. 7 Maria Ormsby Reilly, death and survivors: E. McLennan, personal communication. 5 June 2013.
p. 7 John Reilly retired: Leggott 2006.
p. 7 “Back of the Pipes”: “The Back of the Pipes, Dublin,” Wikipedia.
p. 7 Eight times in Ulysses: Joyce 1986/1922, 50, 128, 228, 303, 306, 307, 400, 590, 598.
p. 7 “Stone sofa”: Quidnunc 1942, 2.
p. 7 Later and fewer marriages: Hill and Lynch, “Ireland: Society and Economy.”
p. 7 Maria married an attorney: Ireland Civil Registration of Marriages Index, Drogheda District, Vol. 5, 8, and “Henry Nicholson Levinge.”
p. 7 Emma wed Joseph Henry Ridge, 1871: Ireland Civil Registration of Marriages Index, South Dublin, Vol. 17, 669.
p. 8 Same-named attorney: Dublin Street Directory, 1838, 1839, and 1842. Joseph Henry Ridge esq., attorney, at 12 Frederick Street North, and at Loughrea.
p. 8 Ridge born Dec. 12, 1873: Civil Registration of Births, Vol. 3, 663.
p. 8 Ridge’s parents separated: Leggott 2006.
p. 8 Horsewhipping an amicable solution: The Argus 23 July 1828, 5. Skerret and Ridge made up and signed a petition together for the lighting, cleansing and washing of Loughrea, according to The Connaught Journal 15 Oct. 1840.
p. 8 Divorce not legal until 1996: Burckhardt 2010, 535.
p. 8 Emma was living with her father: Ridge’s birth certificate.
p. 8 “Fate” keeps them apart: Sproat, Letter to J. Engles, 24 Apr. 1977.
p. 8 Ridge’s grandfather died: Reilly 1869.
p. 9 “915 persons who sleep in 294 beds”: Mapother 1864, 9.
p. 9 “Mysie”: M. Leggott, correspondence with Alison Clarke, 24 Apr. 2011.
p. 9 A second husband: Ireland Civil Registration of Marriages, 1845-1958, Vol. 7, 449.
p. 9 Sailed for Australia around 1876: Penfold’s death certificate estimates around 1876. New South Wales Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages (BDM), 1869.
p. 9 Three Penfolds: NSW Directory for 1867.
p. 9 Uncle William and a Reilly cousin emigrating: M. Leggott, personal communication, and Reilly 1869.
p. 9 Arrival in Australia: LDS Victoria, Australia, Assisted and Unassisted Passenger Lists, 1839-1923, Victoria Public Record Office, VPRS 947.
p. 10 The down from the breast of an albatross: Ridge, Diary, 7 Jan. 1941.
p. 10 “Virgins’ cage”: Hastings 2007, 173.
p. 10 Factory and office work: Bishop, 2011.
p. 10 Forced to Redfern: Ridge, Diary, 5 Feb. 1941.
p. 10 Mostly immigrants and factories: Jagielski 2014.
p. 10 “Just you and I”: Ridge, Diary, 1 Jan. 1941.
p. 10 “A small bare room…”: ibid.
p. 11 “A man carried a sewing machine…”: Ridge, Diary, 7 Jan. 1941.
p. 11 “Why do you watch me…”: ibid.
p. 11 “hear the sunlight singing…”: ibid.
p. 11 Memorialized one miserable Christmas: ibid., and Ridge 1920, 7.
p. 11 “An open air affair…”: “Sydney’s Paddy’s Mar
kets History.”
p. 11 “But, dear, are you sure…”: Ridge, Diary, 7 Jan. 1941.
p. 11 “Just under the ribs…”: ibid.
p. 11 “I asked for biscuits…”: ibid.
p. 12 “My angel”: ibid.
p. 12 “I felt very happy”: ibid.
p. 12 Refused Christmas dinner: Ridge, Diary, 5 Feb. 1941.
p. 12 “The Jews are good people”: Ridge, Diary, 6 Feb. 1941.
p. 12 “Pretend not to notice the fleas…”: ibid.
p. 13 More men than women: Australian Historical Population Statistics, Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2008.
p. 13 Relatives would have known: “Australia in the 1870s,” myplace.edu.au.
p. 13 “I took what money I had…”: Mander 1920, 245.
p. 13 Similar ruse: Hastings 2007, 175.
p. 13 Ore the size of a man’s palm: “Arrival of the Wallaby from Hokitika, with Eleven Thousand Ounces of Gold,” Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle 15 Aug. 1865.
p. 13 Rumors of a gold strike: Timaru Herald 5 May 1877.
p. 13 “Lakelet thick with masts”: Catton 2013.
p. 13 Thirty-two ships: Hutching 2012.
p. 13 Insurance to run aground again: “Gold Fever in Hokitika.”
p. 14 Set up the town of Hokitika: ibid., and May 1967, 334-335.
p. 14 Barefoot boys and company miners: Sisters of Mercy 1978.
p. 14 Gold rush finished: May 1967, 299.
p. 14 Dying race: Pool and Tahu Kukutai 2014.
p. 14 Fisherman drowned, cook disappeared, wife and child murdered: Thames Star 7, 17, 21, 28 Sept. 1880.
p. 14 Declared herself a widow and remarried: ibid., and Ridge, Diary, 2 May 1940. McFarlane might also be the man mentioned in May (1967, 88). Richard Sherrin’s 1863 expedition up the Hokitika in a whaleboat to find gold included a McFarlane, “a young remittance man anxious to avoid some equally anxious creditors,” or perhaps he was mixed up with the other member, a runaway sailor from the Emerald Isle.
p. 14 Working stake in Kanieri Forks: “Rimu District Miners Prospecting Association.” West Coast Times 7 July 1893, 2.
p. 14 General shortage of females: “The Provincial and Gold-Rush Years” 2012, and May 1967, 272.
p. 14 “Appalling isolation”: Mander 1920, 14.
p. 14 McFarlane’s alcoholism: Ridge, Diary, 2 May 1940.
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