Eleanor Roosevelt, the First Lady of the 32nd President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, is often considered the most influential of all First Ladies, having extended the power usually given to a woman in his position to assist in the country's adoption of political policies that benefit the oppressed. After often being the eyes and ears of her paralyzed husband, Eleonora traveled incessantly across the country to verify the social conditions in which the citizens of that region lived. If these conditions did not live up to his expectations, his reform ideas could often be observed. in the policies of the Roosevelt administration. Eleanor Roosevelt transformed the role of First Lady of the United States of America through her influence on feminism, youth rights, civil rights, and the arts, each of these aspects having been incorporated into New Deal policies. With a despondent background in New York City, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt spent the first ten years of her life in the care of her mother and father. The insensitive mother, very critical of her daughter's appearance and personality, generated a sense of self-consciousness in the young woman. Additionally, her father struggled with alcoholism (Eleanor Roosevelt). After the death of her parents, Eleanor and her brother were left under the responsibility of their strict grandmother, Mary Hall. However, Eleanor was finally given the opportunity to blossom into a confident and passionate young woman when she began attending Allenswood Academy in London, England, at the age of fifteen ("Roosevelt, Eleanor"). If Eleanor had not been given the opportunity to attend this boarding school, the likelihood of her ability to courageously promote change in the world would be... half the paper... New York: Viking Press, 1999, 88-91.Eleanor Roosevelt . ABC-CLIO Interactive, 2001. eLibrary. Network. 01 February 2014. "Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights." George Washington University. Np, nd Web. 09 February 2014. .Franklin D. Roosevelt. ABC-CLIO Interactive, 2001. eLibrary. Network. 08 February 2014.Mennell, Sue. "GREAT THINKERS: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)." Training diary. 01 October 2007: 63. eLibrary. Network. 02 February 2014. "Question: What New Deal policies influenced Eleanor Roosevelt?" George Washington University. Np, nd Web. 08 February 2014. "Roosevelt, Eleanor." Elementary Encyclopedia Britannica. 2003. eLibrary. Network. 02 February 2014. Eleanor Roosevelt, This I Remember (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949), 162-163.