[6] All of them received a good education,[6] and Rollin and her sisters, Frances, Katherine and Louisa, would all become influential suffragists at both the state and national levels.
[2] She briefly attended Dr. Dio Lewis's Family School for Young Ladies in Boston, and around 1860 went to Philadelphia, where she studied at the Institute for Colored Youth.
[2] Rollin was reportedly fond of poetry, particularly Lord Byron, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and John Greenleaf Whittier, who she called 'the poet of human liberty and the rights of mankind.
'[7] Although previously wealthy and locally prominent, the Civil War had a major impact on the wealth and property of William Rollin.
In 1870, Rollin was the elected Secretary of the AWSA affiliated[2] South Carolina Woman's Rights Association, and subsequently led a meeting at the state capital of Columbia advocating for women's suffrage.