Feminist Activist. Organized the Feminist Alliance from 1914 to 1917. Listed in Women's Who's Who in 1914. She was a teacher who fought for teachers having to stop teaching when they were married and fought for their right to keep working. She was suspended from teaching for a year when it was found that she was married and sued but lost. She was notorious in many ways and had views in many areas way before her time. She and her husband were members of the New York Liberal Club, and she caused quite a stir which was printed by the New York Times saying, Mrs. Herman de Fremery, who was Henrietta Rodman, a teacher, in the Wadleigh High School, had married another member of the Liberal Club with the full consent of his common law wife, which common law wife moved into the home of Henrietta and her new husband to live. The Pastor and many members were outraged by her behavior. Rumors circulated that other members of the club enjoyed sexual freedoms with Mr. de Fremery and his wife Henrietta. She stated she supported the principal of free love. She used the surname Rodman most of her life and her husband, a Psycologist, shortened his name to de Frem. Educated at Columbia University she was a graduate student in 1911. She adopted two children and they had the last name Rodman. She was known, at the apartment where she lived, as Mrs. Rodman. She dressed in shabby looking clothing and wore sturdy shoes, not at all in the fashion of the times. She died of a brain tumor at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York after unsuccessful surgery. Funeral services were held March 24, 1923, at the Church of the Ascension in New York. It is unknown where this eccentric lady decided to be buried.
Feminist Activist. Organized the Feminist Alliance from 1914 to 1917. Listed in Women's Who's Who in 1914. She was a teacher who fought for teachers having to stop teaching when they were married and fought for their right to keep working. She was suspended from teaching for a year when it was found that she was married and sued but lost. She was notorious in many ways and had views in many areas way before her time. She and her husband were members of the New York Liberal Club, and she caused quite a stir which was printed by the New York Times saying, Mrs. Herman de Fremery, who was Henrietta Rodman, a teacher, in the Wadleigh High School, had married another member of the Liberal Club with the full consent of his common law wife, which common law wife moved into the home of Henrietta and her new husband to live. The Pastor and many members were outraged by her behavior. Rumors circulated that other members of the club enjoyed sexual freedoms with Mr. de Fremery and his wife Henrietta. She stated she supported the principal of free love. She used the surname Rodman most of her life and her husband, a Psycologist, shortened his name to de Frem. Educated at Columbia University she was a graduate student in 1911. She adopted two children and they had the last name Rodman. She was known, at the apartment where she lived, as Mrs. Rodman. She dressed in shabby looking clothing and wore sturdy shoes, not at all in the fashion of the times. She died of a brain tumor at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York after unsuccessful surgery. Funeral services were held March 24, 1923, at the Church of the Ascension in New York. It is unknown where this eccentric lady decided to be buried.
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