a biography of the day-ernestine rose
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Ernestine Rose in England:
Moving to England in 1831, she met and became associated with such reformers as Elizabeth Fry and Robert Dale Owen, and joined with Owen in founding the Association of All Classes of All Nations, working for full legal equality of all people.
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Almost as soon as Ernestine Rose arrived in America, she began working for women's rights. Working with Paulina Wright Davis and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Rose was key in the New York state effort to win the right of married women to control property they had brought into the marriage, and succeeded in passing the Married Women's Property Act of 1848. In 1854, she helped win another law in New York that gave women equal guardianship of their children.
Abolitionist:
Ernestine Rose also was an outspoken abolitionist, even traveling to the South to speak against slavery. Her background as a Jew and her outspoken atheism were controversial. One newspaper described her as "a thousand times below a prostitute" for her atheism.
Woman Suffrage:
Rose became involved in the woman suffrage movement, and was a popular speaker. On her election as president of the National Women's Rights Convention in 1854, some questioned her fitness for that position as an atheist, and Susan B. Anthony came to her defense.
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