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The Rabbi's Daughter

Ernestine Rose was utterly self-possessed and extraordinarily lucky. She was an only child who inherited a fortune - and gave it back. She changed…

Let the identity and interest of the husband be merged in the wife.

For a marvelous recent assessment of Ernestine Rose, stop here and read @JudithShulevitz in @nybooks Then come back and we’ll talk a little bit about…

"How safe we all felt when she had the floor."

Spending a last day on Ernestine Rose: as great a speaker as Anna Dickinson, as radical as Lucretia Mott. There were few Jews in the suffrage movement…

Senator Warren drops out

No US woman could vote, except some in New Jersey, in: 1776 1777 1778 1779 1780 1781 1782 1783 1784 1785 1786 1787 1788 1789 1790 1791 1792 1793 1794…