Revolution, The.
Anthony, Susan B., et al. The Revolution. June 24, 1869, October 7, 1969; September 17, 1870.
8 ¾ x 12 1/8 inches, each issue; printed self-wrappers, sewn; disbound from larger volume; soiling and dust to two pages in each issue; folded for delivery as usual.
Three issues. Anthony and Stanton’s wish for a women’s newspaper was granted in 1867 by financier George Train. On January 8th, 1868, Anthony unveiled the first issue of The Revolution, a newspaper promoting women’s rights and legal reform. The paper—whose motto, “The True Republic–Men, Their Rights and Nothing More; Women, Their Rights and Nothing Less,” was later adapted as a feminist slogan—was a truly collaborative feminist venture. Anthony was its publisher, business manager, chief author and editor, Stanton was the articles editor, and contributors included nearly every major figure of the pre-19th Amendment American women’s rights movement. The 1870 prospectus lists the contributors slated for the coming year, and includes Anna E. Dickinson, Isabella Beecher Hooker, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Alice and Phoebe Cary, Elizabeth Tilton, and Joslyn Gage, among others.
These issues include articles on the report of Miss August Lewis, a delegate from the Woman’s Typographical Union, No. 1 of New York, to the National Typographical Convention, as well as a report of the New York State Woman’s Suffrage Convention at Saratoga and editorials on women’s progress.
The periodical survived for but two years and left Anthony personally in debt for years thereafter. However, as Eleanor Flexner points out in Century of Struggle, the weekly paper “made a contribution to the women’s cause out of all proportion to either its size, brief lifespan, or modest circulation” (Century of Struggle, by Eleanor Flexner, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996, pp.143-1455). The paper was lively, informative and varied as this issue suggests, as it ranges from an announcement of a labor reform movement in New England to a letter from George Train to an appeal for prison reform from Stanton. An important issue of this vital women’s rights paper.
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