Woman’s Journal is first published.
January 8, 1870
The weekly is published by the American Woman’s Suffrage Association from offices at 3 Park Street. Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell are the first editors. It is the first national newspaper staffed solely by women and aimed at a women’s audience in the U.S. Alice Stone Blackwell becomes editor when the paper moves to 585 Boylston Street in 1909. By 1917, the paper absorbs the Woman’s Advocate and Progress and later the National Suffrage News to form the Woman Citizen. It resumes its original name and becomes a monthly in 1927, and ceases publishing in 1931.
Sources
- Women's Heritage Trail
- Wilson, Susan
- & Boston Women's Suffrage Trail
- Boston Journalism Trail