 According to Libbie Hawker, the author of the historical fiction novel "Madam" about Lou Graham, she may have been in a same-sex partnership, and may have employed trans women.Speidel wrote in his last book that traditional forms of documentation consistently underrate the contribution of women in general, and particularly of less respectable women such as Graham.He credits Henry Broderick and Joshua Green with corroborating Graham's importance and her business relationship with Jacob Furth, but he notes that both insisted that their names could not be cited in this connection until after their deaths.