Ernestine L. Rose crisscrossed the country for over thirty years, attacking slavery and decrying women's lack of political and social rights. With the brilliant. witty, and outspoken Rose on the stage, Susan B. Anthony wrote, "we all felt safe." Yet, until now, she was virtually unknown. Rose's disappearance from history is telling. Scorned by newspaper editors, ministers, and politicians, she was also ignored by many of the very women and men with whom she shared reform platforms. In a movement that drew much of its ...
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Ernestine L. Rose crisscrossed the country for over thirty years, attacking slavery and decrying women's lack of political and social rights. With the brilliant. witty, and outspoken Rose on the stage, Susan B. Anthony wrote, "we all felt safe." Yet, until now, she was virtually unknown. Rose's disappearance from history is telling. Scorned by newspaper editors, ministers, and politicians, she was also ignored by many of the very women and men with whom she shared reform platforms. In a movement that drew much of its moral and intellectual energy from appeals to sentimental Christian piety, Rose's atheism, her Jewish and Polish background, her foreign accent, and her blunt appeal to reason all made her a kind of barometer for the era's reformers, registering their antisemitism, their anti-immigrationist sentiments, their unconscious racism. Carol A. Kolmerten has recovered here the most eloquent and persuasive speeches and letters of the movement.
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First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]
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Syracuse University Press
Published:
1999
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English
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C Kurt Holter (Author photograph) Very good in Very good jacket. xxviii, [2], 300 pages. Illustrations. Abbreviations. References. Index. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads To Barbara, Great to see you again. Carol Kolmerten. This is one of the Writing American Women series. Ernestine L. Rose was one of the most important, but also one of the least-known, women's rights activists in nineteenth-century America. In the first comprehensive biography of Rose, Carol A. Kolmerten has recovered the most eloquent and persuasive speeches and letters of the movement itself. Rose's disappearance from history is telling. Scorned by newspaper editors, ministers, and politicians, she was also ignored by many of the very women and men with whom she shared reform platforms. In a movement that drew much of its moral and intellectual energy from appeals to sentimental Christian piety, Rose's atheism, her Jewish and Polish background, her foreign accent, and her blunt appeal to reason all made her a kind of barometer for the era's reformers, registering their anti-Semitism, their anti-immigrationist sentiments, their unconscious racism. Derived from a Publishers Weekly article: This revelatory biography revises the history of the 19th-century women's rights movement in America by restoring to center stage one of its key movers and shakers, Ernestine Rose. Born Ernestine Potowski, a rabbi's daughter, in 1810 in Poland, she lived in Berlin, and in London where she became a follower of communitarian socialist Robert Owen, before moving to New York in 1836 with English husband William Rose. By 1860 she was one of the best-known women's rights advocates, an antislavery crusader, a principal organizer of the annual national feminist conventions and arguably the movement's most brilliant orator, sharing platforms with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and Lucretia Mott. So why is Rose virtually forgotten today? Kolmerten, professor of English at Hood College in Maryland, maintains that Rose's sarcastic wit, her combativeness, her foreign accent, her Jewish and Polish background (she was perceived as Jewish, despite being an outspoken freethinking atheist) all made her an outsider, a target of both anti-immigrant and anti-Semitic prejudice. Tiring of internecine political wrangles and of the virulently racist language used by Stanton and Anthony in their campaign to secure the vote for women, Rose, with her husband, moved back to London in 1869, where she continued to agitate for women's rights until her death in 1892. The activist's idealism, sharp tongue and refusal to compromise are inspirational. This book launches a new Syracuse University Press series, Writing American Women, which will include feminist biographies, ethnic anthologies and essay collections. Kolmerten is the series editor.