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Potowski lived in Berlin for the next two years and then in the Netherlands and Paris before settling in England at the age of 21. There she joined a circle of reformers and philanthropists that included jeweler and silversmith William E. Rose, whom she married in 1836. The couple soon immigrated to the United States, where Ernestine Rose began to spearhead the drive for equal rights for women. She strongly opposed the law of the day that deprived married women of the right to control property they had owned before marriage, and in the 1840s she led a drive in New York state to reverse that law. In 1848 the state legislature enacted a measure permitting married women to keep control of the property that had been theirs as single women. (See Married Women’s Property Acts.) By 1850 Rose had become involved in the new women’s rights movement that had been born two years earlier at the Seneca Falls Convention in Seneca Falls, N.Y. An effective speaker, Rose promoted not only women’s rights but also the abolition of slavery and a ban on the manufacture of alcoholic beverages. In 1869 she cofounded, with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the National Woman Suffrage Association, whose chief aim was a constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote.<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ernestine-Rose Ernestine Rose]</ref>}}

Potowski lived in Berlin for the next two years and then in the Netherlands and Paris before settling in England at the age of 21. There she joined a circle of reformers and philanthropists that included jeweler and silversmith William E. Rose, whom she married in 1836. The couple soon immigrated to the United States, where Ernestine Rose began to spearhead the drive for equal rights for women. She strongly opposed the law of the day that deprived married women of the right to control property they had owned before marriage, and in the 1840s she led a drive in New York state to reverse that law. In 1848 the state legislature enacted a measure permitting married women to keep control of the property that had been theirs as single women. (See Married Women’s Property Acts.) By 1850 Rose had become involved in the new women’s rights movement that had been born two years earlier at the Seneca Falls Convention in Seneca Falls, N.Y. An effective speaker, Rose promoted not only women’s rights but also the abolition of slavery and a ban on the manufacture of alcoholic beverages. In 1869 she cofounded, with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the National Woman Suffrage Association, whose chief aim was a constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote.<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ernestine-Rose Ernestine Rose]</ref>}}