After her husband moved to Washington DC, she commuted between Washington and Beatrice, all the while continuing to publish. The Tribune was probably the first woman’s paper published by a woman, and during the Spanish-American War, Colby was the first officially recognized woman war correspondent representing a woman’s newspaper.Ĭolby published the newspaper in Beatrice through 1889. Colby believed that her newspaper should connect suffrage to other issues of importance and interest to women, particularly to the rural women of the Midwest and West, so political and international issues were presented. Unlike many others, the Tribune was designed for general circulation. It was the second longest running woman suffrage newspaper. Elizabeth Cady Stanton considered it “the best suffrage paper ever published” and allowed it to serialize two of her most important works, her autobiography and The Woman’s Bible. Anthony considered The Woman’s Tribune the organ of the National Woman Suffrage Association, even though the Tribune was never formally affiliated with any national group. The Tribune’s audience included many leading activists, along with potential converts in the trans-Mississippi West. Colby would become one of America’s most outspoken proponents of woman suffrage and political rights. For the next year, it was the official publication of the Nebraska Woman Suffrage Association. The Woman’s Tribune, with its masthead motto “Equality Before The Law,” was launched by Clara Bewick Colby from her home in Beatrice, Nebraska, in August 1883. The greatest triumph of this progression is redeeming woman from her inferior position and placing her side by side with man, a help-mate for him in all his pursuits.” Her steadfast devotion of purpose and her unwavering editorial principles regarding social inequalities and the education of American women made her one of the most important editors of her time. We have to sow the fields-the harvest is sure. Most importantly, Sarah Josepha Hale (1788-1879) became the new editor, bringing substance to the magazine and writing frequently about the notion of “women’s sphere.” In 1846, she stated, “ The time of action is now. In 1836, Godey purchased the Boston-based American Ladies’ Magazine and merged it with his own publication. Godey’s Lady’s Book also was a vast reservoir of handsome illustrations, including hand-colored fashion plates, mezzotints, engravings, woodcuts, and chromolithographs. Gradually, the periodical matured into an important literary magazine containing extensive book reviews and works by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and many other celebrated 19th-century authors, who regularly contributed essays, poetry, and short stories. Each issue also contained two pages of sheet music. In addition to extensive fashion descriptions and plates, the early issues included biographical sketches, articles about mineralogy, handcrafts, female costume, the dance, equestrienne procedures, health and hygiene, recipes and remedies, and the like. In Philadelphia in 1830, Louis Antoine Godey (1804-1878) commenced the publication of Godey’s Lady’s Book, designed to attract the growing audience of American women-to entertain, inform, and educate.

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