who was shesome. >> ada claire is one of a wide spectrum of types who spent most of her time in thisne club in new york city which was a real bohemian spot in the 1850s. and then ada claire, having independent wealth from a family that died, was able to go on the stage to present herself as a bohemian, free woman from new york all the way to hon lieu loo -- hon honolulu, most astonishingly. >> a single mother. >> and a single mother and go through a series of lovers and write a series of unsuccessful novels and live this sort of astonishing way that seems to us unbelievable for the 1850s. but spoke to the openness of american society which in some ways, some terribly sad ways for me as the great, great grandson of an abolitionist and union army soldier, shut down with the civil war and left behind it a very lessened, weakened society with a bohemia that took 20 or 30 years to give itself sort of a rebirth. >> ada introduces a paradox. she was the sole heiress of plantation other thans. and we also meet natalie barney who kind of also had more money than god and used it to build a les

who was shesome. >> ada claire is one of a wide spectrum of types who spent most of her time in thisub in new york city which was a real bohemian spot in the 1850s. and then ada claire, having independent wealth from a family that died, was able to go on the stage to present herself as a bohemian, free woman from new york all the way to hon lieu loo -- hon honolulu, most astonishingly. >> a single mother. >> and a single mother and go through a series of lovers and write a series of unsuccessful novels and live this sort of astonishing way that seems to us unbelievable for the 1850s. but spoke to the openness of american society which in some ways, some terribly sad ways for me as the great, great grandson of an abolitionist and union army soldier, shut down with the civil war and left behind it a very lessened, weakened society with a bohemia that took 20 or 30 years to give itself sort of a rebirth. >> ada introduces a paradox. she was the sole heiress of plantation other thans. and we also meet natalie barney who kind of also had more money than god and used it to build a lesbian