Women's Magazines and Newspapers
Women's Magazines and Newspapers
The story of American women in their own words. Explore the publications that chronicled the fight for rights, reform, education, and social change from 1830 to 1913.
The story of American women in their own words. Explore the publications that chronicled the fight for rights, reform, education, and social change from 1830 to 1913.
This database preserves the voices of women who helped shape public debate during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through newspapers and magazines, readers can follow the development of the Women’s Rights and Woman Suffrage movements while gaining insight into the ideas, campaigns, and individuals that challenged social and political barriers.
These publications also provide a rich record of American life beyond the struggle for voting rights. Contributors wrote about slavery and abolition, the Civil War, education, labor, religion, immigration, family life, and the changing role of women in society. Together, they are a primary source record for understanding the social, cultural, and political transformations that helped define modern America.
1830–1913
8 decades of major activists—Amelia Bloomer, Mary Church Terrell—and dozens of other history changers.
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Every extant issue. Full runs of the most sought-after, including Godey's and The Woman's Tribune.
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Godey's Lady's Book (1830-1878) Godey’s Lady's Book is considered among the most important resources for examining nineteenth-century American life and culture. Over time, it evolved into a key literary magazine featuring celebrated authors like Harriet Beecher Stowe and Edgar Allan Poe.
The Woman's Tribune (1883-1909) The Women’s Tribune was the second-longest-running woman suffrage newspaper and the first published by a woman. Clara Bewick Colby aimed to connect suffrage to other issues important to women, especially those in rural areas of the Midwest and West.
The National Standard (1870–1872) In 1870, The National Standard launched as a monthly, supporting both the Woman Suffrage and Temperance movements. Within the year, it changed to a daily newspaper focusing on women’s political rights, suffrage, and social reforms.
The Lily (1849–1856) The first newspaper for women, The Lily began as a temperance journal and became more radical with Elizabeth Cady Stanton writing as “Sunflower” and calling for changes in laws unfair to women and for dress reform.
The Western Woman Voter (1911–1913) Following the passage of suffrage in Washington State, The Western Woman Voter served as a progressive forum for its publisher, Adella Parker. It kept women in each of the suffragist states informed of the civic activities of women voters elsewhere.
The Remonstrance (1890–1913) The Remonstrance was the official publication of the Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women. It was a forum for women who believed that the great majority of their sex did not want the ballot.
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