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276 Coutts, reproving the female aspirants for places on the board. Whereupon a fine-looking, middle-aged lady arose, ascended the platform, and, with that practiced ability which those who know Mrs. Rose will easily imagine, made a speech on the woman question generally, which fairly revolutionized the meeting.”

The London National Reformer thus notices her address at a Conference of the Woman’s Suffrage movement in that city:

“The speech of the meeting was, however, made by a lady whose name will be familiar to all readers of the Boston Investigator. We mean Mrs. Ernestine L. Rose, of New York. The good old lady with her white curls, her erect, healthy-looking body, her clear, distinct voice, her occasional quaint phrases, her stern determination, and her real genius as a speaker, won from those present a far more hearty and lengthened tribute of applause than was accorded to anyone else.”

In an article entitled “A Legend of