Subject: Suffrage

This book, published in 1876, presents biographical sketches of eleven prominent women associated with the freethought movement. The biographies include Madame Roland, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, Mary Shelley, George Sand, Harriet Martineau, Frances Wright D'Arusmont, Emma Martin, Margaret Reynolds Chappellsmith, Ernestine L. Rose, Frances Power Cobbe, and George Eliot (Marian Evans Lewes). This work, originally published by Somerby before its acquisition by The Truth Seeker Company, contains a significant biographical account of Ernestine Rose (pp. 255-281). It is considered extremely rare due to a lack of subsequent reprints.

This 23-page pamphlet contains the complete legal brief presented by Moses Aaron Dropsie before the Judiciary Committee of the Pennsylvania State Senate in July 1869. The case, *Thomas Barlow et al. vs. William Patterson et al.*, concerned a challenge to a new state law aimed at preventing voting fraud in Philadelphia. Dropsie, representing the Philadelphia Aldermen, argued in favor of the law's constitutionality, addressing the lower court's decision that its application to Philadelphia alone violated the state constitution's guarantee of 'free and equal' elections. Dropsie's argument emphasizes the necessity of laws to prevent election fraud and protect the right to suffrage.