By Kristy McCaffrey
The Woman’s Journal was a weekly newspaper published every Saturday in Boston and Chicago beginning on January 8, 1870. It was centered on the interests of women, including educational, industrial, legal and political equality, with an emphasis on suffrage rights, aligning with the American Woman Suffrage Association.
Lucy Stone courtesy of
National Women's History Musem
The Journal was considered more moderate when compared to other women’s rights papers, with the founder, Lucy Stone, having split from Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Historian Barbara Berenson notes that the Journal “adopted a positive outlook; throughout the long suffrage struggle, it would stress progress and maintain that success was inevitable.” While maybe not as radical as other publications, its tone likely influenced the publication’s wide appeal.
When Lucy (and later her husband) passed away, their daughter Alice took over the paper. From 1910-1912, the National American Woman Suffrage Association temporarily funded the paper, and in 1912 The Woman’s Journal changed its name to The Woman’s Journal and Suffrage News.
The paper covered work in various states and countries. In 1915, their circulation reached 27,000 copies each week, and it was dispersed across the United States and to 39 countries.
Financial issues led to it being sold in 1917 and moving from
Boston to New York City, where it was renamed The Woman Citizen. But
there’s no doubt that The Journal was an integral part of the suffrage
movement.
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What if The Magnificent Seven were women?
In my latest release, seven women fight to save their town.
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Dr. Anna Ryan has been spurned by the Dallas medical community for the simple reason of being a woman. Wanting more than a rural practice alongside her mother, also a doctor, Anna accepts an invitation from a mentor to join a private hospital for disabled children in Oklahoma City. But when she falls in with a band of women attempting to protect the rights of Chickasaw orphans, she’ll need more than her medical training to survive.
Malcolm Hardy has skirted the line between lawlessness and justice since escaping the mean streak of his father and his no-good half-siblings a decade ago. In Oklahoma Territory he created enough distance from his family name to find a quiet purpose to his days. But then Anna Ryan walks back into his life, and his hard-won peace is in jeopardy.
The last time Malcolm saw Anna, she had been a determined girl he couldn’t help but admire. Now she was a compelling woman searching for answers that could lead straight to him. But one thing was clear—Anna’s life path was on a trajectory for the remarkable while Malcolm’s was not. Surrendering to temptation would only end in heartbreak.
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