Marie Goldsmith

St. Petersburg and her mother, Sofia, was trained in medicine. The family belonged to forbidden organizations. This evidently affected Goldsmith's childhood and mindset therein, though the former was little recorded. They fled Russia for Paris in 1884, where her father died two years later.^[3] Goldsmith received a Ph.D. in biology from the Sorbonne in 1915 and published scientific papers.^[3] She served as secretary of L'Année Biologique from 1902 to 1919, and worked closely with its editor, Yves Delage, especially after he became nearly blind in 1904. Together they published Les Théories de l'évolution and La Parthénogénèse naturelle et expérimentale. After his death in 1920, Goldsmith struggled to find stable work.^[4]

Bibliothèque Nationale of Paris, with copies at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.^[2] Goldsmith continued to write for other anarchist papers, including the Plus Loin in the 1920s,^[4] and her apartment, which she shared with her mother, served as a meeting place for Russian anarchists in Paris.^[5] Shortly after her mother died, Goldsmith killed herself on 11 January 1933.^[4][5] She never naturalized as French.^[4]