Ethel Duffy Turner

Ethel Evelyn Duffy Turner (1885 San Pablo – 1969 Cuernavaca) was an American journalist and writer. She was a witness to the events of the Mexican Revolution.[1] She is known for her book Ricardo Flores Magón and the Mexican Liberal Party.[2]

Ethel Duffy Turner

Career

In 1909, she wrote for The Border, in Tucson, financed by Elizabeth Trowbridge. Under the guise of a magazine dedicated to the border culture of Arizona, it also campaigned in defense of the Mexican Liberal Party (PLM) members imprisoned in the United States.[1] It also campaigned against the social situation in Mexico during the regime. by Porfirio Díaz.

Duffy Turner was an anarchist.[3][4][5] She helped organize the Magonista party in Los Angeles. She knew Antonio Villa-Real, Librado Rivera. Magonist meetings were held at the Turners' own Los Angeles apartment. She edited the Regeneration English pages.[2]

Her papers are held at the University of California, Berkeley.[6]

Personal life

She married John Kenneth Turner in 1905 in Fresno, CA. They met at the University of California, where Ethel was a 3rd year student, and John was a "special student". They had a daughter in 1909 named Juanita. Ethel and John divorced in 1917, and Ethel never remarried.

Works
  • Ethel Duffy Turner; Eduardo Limón G Ricardo Flores Magón y el Partido Liberal Mexicano Morelia: Editorial Erandi del Gobierno del Estado, 1960
  • Ethel Duffy Turner; Rey Devis Revolution in Baja California: Ricardo Flores Magon's High Noon Detroit, Mich. : Blaine Ethridge—Books, 1981. ISBN 9780879170783[7]
  • Ethel Duffy Turner; One Way Ticket , Published by Smiths & Haas, January 1934

References
  1. "Cor281 | Archivo Digital de Ricardo Flores Magón". Retrieved 2020-09-18.
  2. "DE ETHEL DUFFY TURNER SOBRE RICARDO FLORES MAGON - Proceso". Proceso. 1985-09-14. Archived from the original on 2018-12-16. Retrieved 2020-09-18.
  3. Castañeda, Christopher J.; Feu, Montse, eds. (2019). Writing Revolution: Hispanic Anarchism in the United States. University of Illinois Press. p. 138. ISBN 978-0-252-05160-9. OCLC 1096530882.
  4. Campbell, Russell; Porton, Richard (2009). Anarchist Film and Video. ISBN 9781604860504.
  5. Swartz, Marc J.; Turner, Victor Witter; Tuden, Arthur (2017). Political Anthropology. ISBN 9780202367903.
  6. "Ethel Duffy Turner papers, [ca. 1907-1969]". oac.cdlib.org. Retrieved 2020-09-18.
  7. Blaisdell, Lowell L. (May 1982). "Rev. of Revolution in Baja California: Ricardo Flores Magón's High Noon". Hispanic American Historical Review. 62 (2): 292–293. doi:10.1215/00182168-62.2.292. ISSN 0018-2168.


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