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Book Review | The Journal of American History, 86.4 | The History Cooperative

The American Life of Ernestine L. Rose. By Carol A. Kolmerten. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1999. xxx, 300 pp. $34.95, isbn 0-8156-0528-5.)

During the last thirty years, historians interested in chronicling the accomplishments of American women have engaged in a recovery process. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were among the first to attract their attention. The social activist and women's rights advocate Ernestine L. Rose has had to wait to be rescued from relative obscurity. One of the difficulties in writing a scholarly biography on Rose is that she left no letters, diary, or memoir. The result is that Carol A. Kolmerten, a professor of English at Hood College, has had to piece together the story of her life primarily through newspapers and the proceedings of women's rights conventions. 1

Rose was born in Poland, in 1810, the daughter of a Jewish rabbi. Rebellious and adventuresome, she left home at the age of seventeen. By 1829 she was living in England. There she became a follower of Robert Owen and married William Rose. In 1836, they immigrated to the United States to help establish an Owenite colony. When those plans did not work out, they remained in New York City where William worked as a jeweler. . . .

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