Greetings! As I said earlier, throughout the summer, I will be posting transcripts from the diary of Susan B. Anthony, who with her fellow women’s rights activist Ernestine Rose visited Washington, D.C., and its environs in the spring of 1854. This is the third in the series. March 24 Directed tickets to Mrs. Rose meeting on […]
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As I mentioned in my last post, I am transcribing the portion of Susan B. Anthony’s diary in which Anthony details her trip to Washington, D.C., and thereabouts in 1854 with fellow women’s rights activist Ernestine Rose. As before, the entries are followed by my notations. March 22 Rainy & snowy this A.M. Mr. &
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As some of you know, I am working on a biography of nineteenth-century feminist Ernestine Rose, who is also the subject of my historical novel The Queen of the Platform. An accomplished public speaker who lectured on women’s rights, the abolition of slavery, religious freethought, and other issues of the day, Ernestine Rose was a
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At long last, I’m pleased to say that The Queen of the Platform will be available on March 12, just in time for Women’s History Month! It can be found in paperback and e-book form at your favorite online bookstore or ordered in paperback through your local bookseller. Can’t wait to get my latest book
I recently visited England (my first visit in way too many years), partly to track down some residences associated with Ernestine Rose, the heroine of my forthcoming novel, The Queen of the Platform. Although Ernestine spent many years in New York City, none of her homes there have survived modern development, so it was a
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In 1870, the widowed Mary Lincoln and her son Tad, who had already been in one war zone in Washington, D.C., found themselves in another as France and Prussia faced off. After her husband’s assassination, Mary refused to return to Springfield, Illinois.[1] Although the Lincolns owned a home at Eighth and Jackson Streets there, and
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In researching my forthcoming novel on Ernestine Rose, I quickly found that biographers knew little about her family–only the names of her husband William Ella Rose and the three nieces that she named in her last will and testament. Knowing that genealogical information is far more accessible now than it was to her biographers, I
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In nineteenth-century London (and apparently into the 1960s), it was possible for the venturesome to climb all the way to the interior of the golden ball surmounting St. Paul’s Cathedral in London (right below the cross). One of those who made the effort was the intrepid feminist Ernestine Rose, who along with her husband was
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Ernestine Rose, the subject of my novel-in-progress, was a contemporary of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Ernestine was much closer to Susan B. Anthony, who accompanied Ernestine to Washington, D.C., in 1854, defended Ernestine against those who would have kept her off the platform because of her open atheism, and visited Ernestine, a