Ernestine Rose Society

Projects and Past Events

The Ernestine Rose Society disseminates information at academic and community meetings and has raised funds to restore the grave marker for Ernestine and William Rose at Highgate Cemetery, London.

Highlights of the Society's Events in 2002

Storrs, Connecticut, June 4-6, 2002

Panel on Ernestine Rose chaired by Paula B. Doress-Worters with presentations by Ellen Carol DuBois; Carol A. Kolmerten; Bonnie S. Anderson and commentary by Rosalyn Fraad Baxandall.

Highgate Cemetery in London on August 4, 2002, the 110th anniversary of Ernestine's death.

The dedication was preceded by a symposium on August 1 at The Women's Library, London Guildhall University, London.

“Let us, by honoring the memory of reformers in the past, and by aiding the efforts of those in the present, encourage the rise of others in future time.”

Ernestine Rose

At the annual Thomas Paine celebration in New York, January 29, 1840