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Rare 19th century women's suffrage newspaper...
Rare 19th century women's suffrage newspaper...
Item # 725446
February 05, 1881
THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL, Boston, Feb. 5, 1881
* Rare publication
* Women's suffrage
Rare women's suffrage paper founded in 1870, produced by--among others--Lucy Stone, Alice Blackwell, Julia Ward Howe, and Mary Livermore. Published: "...to the interests of Woman, to her educational, industrial, legal & political Equality, & especially to her right of Suffrage" as noted on the ftpg.
Of course the majority of the articles have to do with woman's rights.
Eight pages, a few small binding holes along the spine, nice condition.
background: Published in Boston on February 19, 1881, this eight-page issue of The Woman’s Journal represents the sophisticated "measured" wing of the American suffrage movement during a pivotal year of organizational growth. As the official organ of the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA), the paper was led by the legendary "Boston Brahmin" reformers Lucy Stone, Julia Ward Howe, and Mary Livermore, with 1881 specifically marking the year that Stone’s daughter, Alice Stone Blackwell, joined the editorial staff to begin her lifelong stewardship of the cause. Unlike more radical New York publications, this issue would have focused on the "gradualist" strategy of winning suffrage through state legislatures—particularly in Massachusetts, where activists were then fighting for municipal and school committee voting rights—while maintaining a high-brow literary tone that included poetry, international news, and intellectual rebuttals to the growing "Anti-Suffragist" movement. Because the Journal famously refused advertisements for tobacco, liquor, or "quack" medicines, the content remains a remarkably "pure" historical record of the era’s educational, industrial, and legal arguments for gender equality.
Category: Post-Civil War
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