The Una

The Una

"Out of great heart of nature seek we truth"
Type	reform journal
Founder(s)	Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis
Associate editor	Caroline Healey Dall
Founded	February 1, 1853
Language	English
Ceased publication	October 1855
Headquarters	Providence, Rhode Island
City	Boston, Massachusetts
Country	US

The Una was one of the first feminist periodicals owned, written, and edited entirely by women. Launched in Providence, Rhode Island by Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis in February 1853, it eventually relocated to Boston. "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.^[1][2] The Una was the first paper focused on woman suffrage, and the first distinctively woman's rights journal ever published.^[3] 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, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.^[4] 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.^[3]

After the paper removed to the Boston publisher S. C. Hewitt, Caroline Healey Dall became associate editor, and for some time, assisted in the editorial department,^[2] 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.^[5] Its counterparts were Genius of Liberty and The Lily.^[6]

See also[]

• Die Deutsche Frauen-Zeitung
• The Lily
• List of suffragists and suffragettes
• Timeline of women's suffrage
• Women's suffrage in Rhode Island
• Women's suffrage in the United States
• Women's suffrage organizations and publications

References[]

• Encarta Encyclopedia: 2006 edition.

Attribution[]

• This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Bateham, M. B.; Harris, S. D. (1855). THE OHIO CULTIVATOR: A SEMI-MONTHLY JOURNAL, DEVOTED TO THE IMPROVEMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE, AND THE PROMOTION OF DOMESTIC INDUSTRY: ILLUSTRATED WITH ENGLAVING OF FARM BUILDINGS, IMPLEMENTS, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, Erc (Public domain ed.).
• This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady; Anthony, Susan B.; Gage, Matilda Joslyn (1889). History of Woman Suffrage. Susan B. Anthony.

Bibliography[]

• Ceniza, Sherry (2013). Walt Whitman and Nineteenth-Century Women Reformers. University of Alabama Press. ISBN 978-0-8173-5753-5.
• Wayne, Tiffany (2005). Woman Thinking: Feminism and Transcendentalism in 19th-Century America. Rowman & Littefield / Lexington Books. ISBN 978-0-7391-0759-1.

External links[]

• All three volumes of The Una, courtesy of the Boston Athenaeum.
• Image of volume 1, number 1, February 1, 1853. (Half-way down the page)