Mistress Of Herself

By Ernestine L. Rose, Paula Doress-Worters (editor),

Book cover of Mistress Of Herself: Speeches and Letters of Ernestine L. Rose, Early Women's Rights Leader

Book description

Susan B. Anthony hung a picture of Rose on her wall. Elizabeth Cady Stanton publicly eulogized her as indispensable. Unique among the founders of the women’s rights movement because she was a Polish immigrant of Jewish background, celebrated orator Ernestine Rose (1810-1882) won the title "Queen of the Platform" for…

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1 author picked Mistress Of Herself as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Ernestine Rose, a Polish-Jewish immigrant who was one of the first women to speak out for women’s rights in the United States, was well-known in her time but is little remembered today.

This book, which includes most of her published speeches and some of her letters, made her come alive for me. With lines like “It is time to consider whether what is wrong in one sex, can be right in the other” (referring to the double standard of sexual morality for men and women), it still holds relevance for us today. I’ll never get to hear Ernestine Rose speak…

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