Woman's Journal

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Woman's Journal
Circulation
27,634 (1915)

Woman's Journal was an American

Boston, Massachusetts, by Lucy Stone and her husband Henry Browne Blackwell as a weekly newspaper. In 1917 it was purchased by Carrie Chapman Catt's Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission and merged with The Woman Voter and National Suffrage News to become known as The Woman Citizen. It served as the official organ of the National American Woman Suffrage Association
until 1920, when the organization was reformed as the League of Women Voters, and the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was passed granting women the right to vote. Publication of Woman Citizen slowed from weekly, to bi-weekly, to monthly. In 1927, it was renamed The Woman's Journal. It ceased publication in June 1931.

History

1887 advertisement

Woman's Journal was founded in 1870 in

Mary A. Livermore
's The Agitator, as well as a lesser known periodical called the Woman's Advocate.

The works of Ohioan comedy writer Rosella Rice, whose poems mythologized the figure of Johnny Appleseed, were published in Woman's Journal.[1][2]

The first issue was published on January 8, on the two-year anniversary of the first issue of

Stephen S. Wise, Zona Gale, Florence Kelley, Witter Bynner, Ben B. Lindsey, Louisa May Alcott, Harriet Clisby and Caroline Bartlett Crane. William Lloyd Garrison was a frequent contributor. Around 1887, headquarters were located in Boston on Park Street.[3]

Woman's Journal refused to carry

drugs
.

In 1910, Woman's Journal absorbed Progress, the official organ of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). Until 1912, it served in that capacity, at which point it was renamed Woman's Journal and Suffrage News. By 1915, circulation had reached 27,634, up from 2,328 in 1909.

The Woman Citizen

The Woman Citizen, December 4, 1920

In 1917, Woman's Journal was purchased by Carrie Chapman Catt's Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission for $50,000,[4] and merged with The Woman Voter, the official journal of the Woman Suffrage Party of New York City, and NAWSA's National Suffrage News to become known as The Woman Citizen. It served as NAWSA's official organ until 1920,[5] when NAWSA was reformed as the League of Women Voters, and the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was passed ensuring women's right to vote.

The editor-in-chief of The Woman Citizen was

child labor in addition to women's suffrage. After women won the right to vote, the journal's focus shifted to political education for women.[6] One of the aims of the League of Women Voters was to demonstrate its continued political power, now in the form of large numbers of newly enfranchised voters, and to soften its image in the eyes of women who were wary of radical politics. To that end, the journal courted middle-class female readers. It editorialized in support of the Maternity and Infancy Act of 1921, which was the first major legislation to be passed after the full enfranchisement of women. Readers were urged to support the Act by writing to their representatives and talking to their neighbors about it; one article included step-by-step instructions for finding out the names and addresses of their legislators.[7]

Publication of Woman Citizen slowed from weekly, to bi-weekly, to monthly. In 1927, it was renamed The Woman's Journal. It ceased publication in June 1931.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Coggeshall, William Turner (1860). The Poets and Poetry of the West: With Biographical and Critical Notices. Follett, Foster.
  2. ^ "Rosella Rice - more information". 2016-03-22. Archived from the original on 2016-03-22. Retrieved 2022-06-26.
  3. ^ Boston Almanac & Business Directory. 1887
  4. ^ The record of the Leslie woman suffrage commission, inc., 1917–1929, by Rose Young.
  5. ^ Library of Congress. American Memory: Votes for Women. One Hundred Years toward Suffrage: An Overview, compiled by E. Susan Barber with additions by Barbara Orbach Natanson. Retrieved 19 May 2010.
  6. ^ "The Woman Citizen". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
  7. S2CID 145208716
    .

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