Woman's Journal

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Woman's Journal was founded in 1870 in Boston, Massachusetts, by Lucy Stone and her husband Henry Browne Blackwell as a weekly newspaper. The new paper incorporated 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.{{Cite book |last=Coggeshall |first=William Turner |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c4ssJ5obTk8C&dq=%22rosella+rice%22&pg=PA616 |title=The Poets and Poetry of the West: With Biographical and Critical Notices |date=1860 |publisher=Follett, Foster |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2016-03-22 |title=Rosella Rice - more information |url=http://www.rosellarice.com/index_files/Page552.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160322134056/http://www.rosellarice.com/index_files/Page552.htm |archive-date=2016-03-22 |access-date=2022-06-26}}

The first issue was published on January 8, on the second anniversary of the first issue of Susan B. Anthony's The Revolution. Stone and Blackwell served as editors, with assistance from Livermore. Julia Ward Howe edited from 1872 to 1879. Alice Stone Blackwell, daughter of Stone and Blackwell, began editing in 1883 and took over as sole editor after her father's death in 1909, continuing until 1917. Contributors included Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Antoinette Brown Blackwell, Mary Johnston, 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.Boston Almanac & Business Directory. 1887

Woman's Journal refused to carry advertisements for tobacco, liquor, or 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.

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In 1917, Woman's Journal was purchased by Carrie Chapman Catt's Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission for $50,000,[http://rs6.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/naw:@field(DOCID+@lit(rbnawsan4830div12)) The record of the Leslie woman suffrage commission, inc., 1917–1929, by Rose Young.] 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,Library of Congress. American Memory: Votes for Women. [http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwtl.html One Hundred Years toward Suffrage: An Overview], compiled by E. Susan Barber with additions by Barbara Orbach Natanson. Retrieved 19 May 2010. 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 Rose Emmet Young; Alice Stone Blackwell was a contributing editor. Every U.S. Congress member was given a free subscription to the journal. It covered issues such as 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.{{cite web|title=The Woman Citizen|url=http://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Woman-Citizen|website=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=17 March 2016}} 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.{{cite journal|last1=Pierce|first1=Jennifer Burek|title=Science, Advocacy, and 'The Sacred and Intimate Things of Life': Representing Motherhood as a Progressive Era Cause in Women's Magazines|journal=American Periodicals|date=2008|volume=18|issue=1|pages=69–95|doi=10.1353/amp.2008.0003|jstor=41219787|s2cid=145208716}}

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.

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• Ryan, Agnes E. [https://www.loc.gov/item/88180024/ The Torch Bearer: A Look Forward and Back at the Woman's Journal, the Organ of the Woman's Movement], 1916. National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, Library of Congress

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• [https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Woman%27s+Journal Editorial cartoons from Woman's Journal and Suffrage News] in the Social Welfare History Image Portal, Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries
• [https://listview.lib.harvard.edu/lists/hollis-002490378 Woman's Journal in the Harvard University Library]
• [https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Woman+Citizen The Woman Citizen] in the Social Welfare History Image Portal, Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries

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