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At age 44, she started a lesbian relationship with a wealthy widow, Evangeline Simpson, with explicitly erotic correspondence. However things cooled off when Evangeline married an [[Episcopal Church (United States)|Episcopal]] bishop from [[Minnesota]], [[Henry Benjamin Whipple]]. By 1910, after his death, the two women rekindled their relationship and eventually moved to [[Bagni di Lucca]], [[Italy]] to live there together. They shared the house with the English illustrator and artist [[Nelly Erichsen]]. Rose died at home on November 22, 1918 at 7:32 in the evening during the [[1918 flu pandemic]]. She was buried there in the English Cemetery, and Evangeline was also buried next to Rose in the same cemetery 12 years later.<ref name="Lillian Faderman, ''Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers''"/><ref>{{cite web|author=Evangeline Marrs Simpson Whipple |url=http://www.inhonorofthepeople.org/people/evangeline-whipple#%26discussions |title=Evangeline Whipple |publisher=In honor of the people |date=1930-09-01 |accessdate=2016-09-07}}</ref>

She published a volume of lectures and essays under the title ''George Eliot's Poetry, and other Studies'' (New York, 1885), ''The Long Run'', a novel (1886),<ref name="appletons"/> "You and I: Or Moral, Intellectual and Social Culture", "How to Win: A Book for Girls" (1887) published with feminist leader [[Frances Willard (suffragist)|Frances Willard]], and wrote the introduction for "Social Mirror: A Complete Treatise on the Laws, Rules and Usages that Govern our Most Refined Homes and Social Circles". She translated "The Soliloquies of St. Augustine" (Boston: Little, Brown and Co. 1910), for which she wrote a lengthy introduction and extensive critical notes.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Soliloquies_of_St_Augustine.html?id=7dG5Iy4Hy00C |title=The Soliloquies of St. Augustine - Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.) - Google Books |publisher=Books.google.com |date= |accessdate=2016-09-07}}</ref>