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''The Una'' was one of the first
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periodicals owned, written, and edited entirely by women. Launched in
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Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis Paulina Wright Davis ( Kellogg; August 7, 1813 – August 24, 1876) was an American abolitionist, suffragist, and educator. She was one of the founders of the New England Woman Suffrage Association. Early life Davis was born in Bloomfield, New ...
in February 1853, it eventually relocated to
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. "Out of great heart of nature seek we truth" was the quote in volume 1 number 1.


History

In 1853, ''The Una'', a paper devoted to the enfranchisement of woman, owned and edited by Paulina Wright Davis, was first published in Providence, Rhode Island. ''The Una'' was the first paper focused on woman suffrage, and the first distinctively woman's rights journal ever published. Its mystical name signified "truth", to be used as a constant suggestion of fidelity to all. ''The Una'' had many notable correspondents such as William H. Channing, Elizabeth Peabody, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Rev. A. D. Mayo, Dr. William Elder, Ednah D. Cheney, Caroline H. Dall, Fanny Fern, Elizabeth Oakes Smith, Frances D. Gage, Hannah Tracy Cutler, Abby H. Price, Marion Finch, of Liverpool, Hon. John Neal, of Portland,
Lucy Stone Lucy Stone (August 13, 1818 – October 18, 1893) was an American orator, abolitionist and suffragist who was a vocal advocate for and organizer promoting rights for women. In 1847, Stone became the first woman from Massachusetts to earn a colle ...
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. For nearly three years Davis continued ''The Una'', doing so entirely at her own expense. It took the broadest ground claimed of that day: individual freedom in the State, the Church, and the home; woman's equality and suffrage as a natural right. After the paper removed to the Boston publisher S. C. Hewitt,
Caroline Healey Dall Caroline Wells Dall ( Healey; June 22, 1822 – December 17, 1912) was an American feminist writer, transcendentalist, and reformer. She was affiliated with the National Women's Rights Convention, the New England Women's Club, and the American ...
became associate editor, and for some time, assisted in the editorial department, where it continued to be published until October 1855. Davis viewed ''The Una'' as a reform journal, while Dall wanted to advance it as a literary journal. Its counterparts were ''Genius of Liberty'' and '' The Lily''.


See also

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Die Deutsche Frauen-Zeitung ''Die Deutsche Frauen-Zeitung'' (also known as ''Frauen-Zeitung'', English: ''The German Woman's Journal'') was a German language newspaper founded in 1852 by Mathilde Franziska Anneke in Milwaukee. The paper focused on women's rights issues and ...
'' *'' The Lily'' *
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Timeline of women's suffrage Women's suffrage Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections. Beginning in the start of the 18th century, some people sought to change voting laws to allow women to vote. Liberal political parties would go on to grant ...
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Women's suffrage in Rhode Island Even before women's suffrage in Rhode Island efforts took off, women were fighting for equal male suffrage during the Dorr Rebellion. Women raised money for the Dorrite cause, took political action and kept members of the rebellion in exile inform ...
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Women's suffrage in the United States In the 1700's to early 1800's New Jersey did allow Women the right to vote before the passing of the 19th Amendment, but in 1807 the state restricted the right to vote to "...tax-paying, white male citizens..." Women's legal right to vote w ...
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Women's suffrage organizations and publications Major women's suffrage organizations International *International Alliance of Women – founded in 1904 to promote women's suffrage. *Woman's Christian Temperance Union – active in the suffrage movement, especially in the U.S. and New Zealand. A ...


References

* Encarta Encyclopedia: 2006 edition.


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