Aletta Jacobs

Smith, whom Addams described to Heymann as her "most intimate friend," inspired a great deal of enthusiasm among Addams's colleagues.(25) "Will you kiss your dear friend, Miss Smith, for me and tell her that in sleepless nights and even in nice dreams I see her before me as a good angel," wrote Aletta Jacobs in 1915.

When Shaw fell and broke her foot and Anthony, at the same time, fractured her elbow, Shaw ruefully labeled them "rather a broken up couple." Yet Aletta Jacobs saw Anthony as Shaw's "secretary, friend, and housekeeper," since Shaw paid her a salary.

Aletta Jacobs, the first woman physician in the Netherlands and an international leader, and her husband, Carel Victor Gerritsen, also attracted favorable attention as a model couple within the international women's movement.

Conflict within the German League for the Protection of Motherhood, the leading progressive sex-reform association, led to revelations about the "free marriage" of Helene Stocker and one of her major male allies, Bruno Springer, and Stocker's countercharges that her opponent, Adele Schreiber-Krieger, was also sleeping with her male supporters.(53) In the aftermath of this affair, Aletta Jacobs reported, disgustedly, to Rosika Schwimmer that "Dr.

Aletta Jacobs to Rosika Schwimmer [German], 16 Feb.

1924, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Papers, reel 1 (Micro filming Corporation of America) for "perverse au point de vue sexuel"; Aletta Jacobs to Rosika Schwimmer, 3 May 1909, Schwimmer-Lloyd Collection, box A-20, for "Manly-Looking"; Helen Archdale to Anna Nilsson, 17 May 1933, Equal Rights International Papers, box 331, Fawcett Library, London Guildhall University, for cropped hair and mannish dress; Mia Boissevain, tribute to Rosa Manus, n.d., Rosa Manus Papers, Internationaal Informatiecentrum en Archief voor de Vrouwenbeweging.