The Una

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]

• 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

• Encarta Encyclopedia: 2006 edition.

• 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)