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Rh to doubt the dogmas taught by the Church, she declared herself a Freethinker, and an Infidel. She had been an earnest, conscientious Christian, and when she changed her views she was still as earnest and conscientious, and courageously avowed those changed views, openly and decidedly, by both tongue and pen.

Woman's rights and privileges, and her proper place in the society of which she constitutes so important a part, had awakened her attention, and enlisted her sympathies, long before her religious doubts were aroused. She was married young, and her marriage had proved ill-assorted and unhappy. Doubtless her own sufferings and perplexities led to her inquiries and researches into the wrongs of her sex as a class. Finding for herself no redress or mode of escape, under the law, from the tyranny and ill-usage of a brutal husband, she dared to take the law into her own hands, and separated from him; taking upon herself the care and education of her