Matches in Harvard for { ?s ?p Gloria Albee was born in Brockton, Massachusetts, the daughter of Earl Frederick and Rita Cole Albee. Her father died of tuberculosis in 1937 and the family lived on welfare until World War II, when Rita began working at the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts. She later worked as a typist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Albee and her mother had a difficult relationship and Albee ran away from home in 1946. After narrowly escaping being raped, she returned home; later that year she attempted suicide and was placed in Boston State Hospital for treatment. She graduated from Girls' High, in Boston's South End, in 1949 and began studies at Boston University, dropping out of school the following fall. Over the course of the next several years she worked as an accounting clerk, a wiring technician, and a bookkeeper. In 1959 she traveled to Cuba and upon her return she joined the Fair Play for Cuba Committee and the Socialist Workers Party; she remained active in the Socialist Workers Party until 1973. In 1961 she married Leonard Goodman; they had one daughter, Anna, who died in 1997. Goodman and Albee separated in 1973 and divorced in 1984.. }
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- catalog description "Gloria Albee was born in Brockton, Massachusetts, the daughter of Earl Frederick and Rita Cole Albee. Her father died of tuberculosis in 1937 and the family lived on welfare until World War II, when Rita began working at the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts. She later worked as a typist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Albee and her mother had a difficult relationship and Albee ran away from home in 1946. After narrowly escaping being raped, she returned home; later that year she attempted suicide and was placed in Boston State Hospital for treatment. She graduated from Girls' High, in Boston's South End, in 1949 and began studies at Boston University, dropping out of school the following fall. Over the course of the next several years she worked as an accounting clerk, a wiring technician, and a bookkeeper. In 1959 she traveled to Cuba and upon her return she joined the Fair Play for Cuba Committee and the Socialist Workers Party; she remained active in the Socialist Workers Party until 1973. In 1961 she married Leonard Goodman; they had one daughter, Anna, who died in 1997. Goodman and Albee separated in 1973 and divorced in 1984.".