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''Die Deutsche Frauen-Zeitung'' (also known as ''Frauen-Zeitung'', English: ''The German Woman's Journal'') was a

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newspaper founded in 1852 by

Mathilde Franziska Anneke Mathilde Franziska Anneke (née Giesler; April 3, 1817 – November 25, 1884) was a German writer, feminist, and radical democrat who participated in the Revolutions of 1848–1849. In late 1849, she moved to the United States, where she campaign ...

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. The paper focused on

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issues and ran for around two and half years. It was one of the first

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journals produced by a woman in the

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History

''Die Deutsche Frauen-Zeitung'' (also ''Frauen-Zeitung,'' English: ''German Woman's Journal'') was first published in

in March of 1852. It was founded and edited by

and was one of the first

journals created by a woman in the United States. The publisher of another newspaper, the ''Volksfreund'', gave Anneke space to publish the first issues of ''Frauen-Zeitung''. The paper focused on

issues. In May of 1852, men in the publishing union asked that publishers remove women in the trade. This caused Anneke to tour several cities, including

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, and more, to promote the paper. She began to publish the paper in New York and other cities by October of 1852. ''Frauen-Zeitung'' ran for around two and a half years. Anneke stopped publishing the paper when her health began to fail.

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