The Rabbis Atheist Daughter

"Early feminist Ernestine Rose, more famous in her time than Elizabeth Cady Stanton or Susan B. Anthony, has been undeservedly forgotten. During the 1850s, Rose was an ... orator for women's rights in the United States who became known as 'the queen of the platform.' Yet despite her successes and close friendships with other activists, she would gradually be erased from history for being a foreigner, a radical, and, of most concern to her peers and later historians, an atheist. In [this book], Bonnie S. Anderson recovers the legacy of one of the nineteenth century's most prominent radical activists"--