About.com has an interesting educational feature known as “Women in History”. One such woman was Ernestine Rose:
About Ernestine Rose:
Known for: work for women’s rights, especially married women’s property rights; sometimes called the first Jewish feminist
Dates: January 13, 1810 – August 4, 1892M/p>
Occupation: reformer, lecturer, activist
Also known as: Ernestine Louise Siismondi Potowski Rose, Ernestine Susmond Potowski
More About Ernestine Rose:
Ernestine Rose, born Ernestine Siismondi in Russian Poland, was the daughter of a rabbi. Her mother, who came from a wealthy family, died Ernestine was sixteen; she had already moved towards free thought and away from the strict Judaism of her father. She escaped a marriage her father tried to arrange for her by going to court.
She left Poland in 1827, taking part of her dowry with her. She lived in Prussia for two years, protesting a law that required non-native Jews to have local sponsors. After making some money from an invention to reduce odors in tenement houses, she then traveled to the Netherlands and to Paris.
You can read even more about Ernestine Rose from the About.com “Women’s History” web site at http://womenshistory.about.com/od/marriedwomensproperty/p/ernestine_rose.htm
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