Founded by Lucy Stone and Henry Browne Blackwell, the first issue of The Woman's Journal was released on January 8th, 1870. This American periodical publicized the views of the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA). The publication printed speeches, debates, poems, short stories, and columns that pertained to the women’s suffrage movement. Though The Woman’s Journal stayed silent on the “scandoulous” topics of prostitution, abortion, and contraception, its moderate, less-politicized view allowed it to outlive the more radical publications of the time. Its audience promoted suffrage as a means to receive better education, create better career paths, and obtain property rights for those women that were married. Until it merged with The Woman Citizen in 1917, it was the leading publication of the woman suffrage movement. 

Source:

Encyclopedia Britannica. “Woman's Journal,” September 11, 2018. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Womans-Journal.

The Votes for Women newspaper was originally established by the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and first edited by a husband and wife team, Emmeline and Frederick Pethick-Lawrence. The paper grew in publicity and eventually thousands of copies were being sold each month. Hilda Dallas was a suffragette artist and made many similar illustrations for the paper. The use of green, white, and purple represent the suffragette colors and the feminine woman was very common and used to attract women and supporters. This woman was used to contradict the idea that suffragists no longer practiced feminine roles, and many people responded to that. Due to this papers great success, Votes for Women was the official paper of the WSPU until 1912.

A Women's Suffrage Poster with a title of "Women's Suffrage Flowers." On the bottom, it says "Uncle Sam: Prune away Prejudice, and those will blossom in November." There is a map blossoming out of soil and a plant pot. The pot says "Equality" and the soil says "Liberty." Near the pot, there are 3 gardening tools with words on them. There is a watering can that says "Justice," The hedge shears say "Education" and "Truth." There is a plant rolling tool that says "Logic." The states on the map that include flowers are: Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Colorado, Kansas, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and Illinois. The states on the map that are shaded in black include: North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. The states that are white with neither shading or flowers include: Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Delaware. Uncle Sam is standing next to the map clipping off pieces of the states near Massachusetts.

The background is yellow. "VOTES FOR WOMEN" with Greek typography on top of the poster. "EQUALITY IS THE SACRED LAW OF HUMANITY" with Greek typography on the bottom of the poster. In the center of the poster, a woman wearing a winged petasos helmet to present equality, and behind the woman, an axe to symoblized strength through unity in grey.

This image is from the front of a suffrage newspaper edited by Christabel Pankhurst, a British suffragist leader. “She was very influential in the suffragette movement” (Purvis 2018). She is the daughter of Emmeline and Richard Pankhurst, who were liberal socialist and active proponents of women’s suffrage. Her mother, Emmeline, was a well known and active champion for women’s suffrage in the United Kingdom, and she advocated militant tactics. Her parents' political activism influenced Christabel's involvement in the women’s suffrage movement. She shadowed her mother’s role.

In October 10, 1903, Christabel, Emmeline Pankhurst, and local socialist women formed the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) at the Pankhurst home at 62 Nelson Street in Manchester. The WSPU’s main suffrage organization performed and organized militant strategies for women to get the right to vote.

In 1907, Frederick and Emmeline Pethick Lawrence founded the Votes for Women. It was the first newspaper of the WSPU. Christabel became Chief Organiser and key strategist of WSPU. She took over and edited the WSPU newspaper from the Votes for Women because Emmeline and Frederick Pethick Lawrence were against militant tactics. The WSPU renamed their newspaper The Suffragette and replaced Votes for Women. Christabel edited and promoted more militant tactics from The Suffragette newspaper.

The artist Hilda Dallas made the advertisement for The Suffragette “featuring Joan of Arc with the WSPU banner” in 1902 (Tickner 1988, 252).