She had the Audacity

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25. Crappy in that both parents died.

This occured to many families in that era. Unlike the poor she later championed, however, she had family and money to fall back on to get her through her losses. Without that social standing, I doubt she would have made it to the levels of society she later reached. Even for socially progressive individuals in that era, where your family came from counted a lot in where you got to in life.