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She studied at the London School of Economics in England.
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Ella Winter
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Her parents were Freda Lust and Adolph Wertheimer from Nuremberg (Nürnberg) in Germany, who lived in London, Melbourne, Australia and again in London, when they changed their name to Winter (around 1910). Their children Rudolph, Rosa and Eleanora (Ella) were born in Melbourne. Frederick Wertham was a relative.
She met the United States. journalist and "muckraker" Lincoln Steffens at the Versailles Conference, where she was secretary to United States Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter.
She wrote her first book, Red Virtue, after visiting the Soviet Union. Her autobiography, And Not to Yield, was published in 1963.
Lincoln Steffens died in Carmel in 1936. They lived in California and then in Hampstead, London (which the New York Times obituary misspelled as "Hamstead").
