Editing Lucy Stone (section)

=== ''Woman's Journal'' ===

In 1870, Stone and Blackwell founded the ''[[Woman's Journal]]'', an eight-page weekly newspaper based in Boston. Originally intended, primarily, to voice the concerns of the NEWSA and the AWSA, by the 1880s, it had become an unofficial voice of the suffrage movement, as a whole.<ref>McMillen, 2008, pp. 208, 224</ref> Stone edited the journal for the rest of her life, assisted by her husband and their daughter, [[Alice Stone Blackwell]]. Stone did not collect a salary for her work on the paper, which required continual financial support. One of her greatest challenges was raising money to keep it going. Its circulation reached a peak of 6,000, although, in 1878, it was 2,000 less than it had been, two years earlier.<ref>McMillen, 2015, [https://books.google.com/books?id=tPCRBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA191 pp. 191–192]</ref>

After the AWSA and NWSA merged to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) in 1890, the ''Woman's Journal'' became its official voice and eventually the basis for a newspaper with a much wider circulation.<ref>Fowler, Robert Booth, ''Carrie Catt: Feminist Politician'', 1986, p. 117. Boston: Northeastern University Press. {{ISBN|0-930350-86-3}}.</ref> In 1917, at a time when victory for women's suffrage was coming closer, [[Carrie Chapman Catt]], leader of the NAWSA, said, "There can be no overestimating the value to the suffrage cause of the ''Woman's Journal''... The suffrage success of today is not conceivable, without the ''Woman's Journal'''s part in it.<ref>Carrie Chapman Catt, ''Woman Citizen'', June 2, 1917, as quoted in Blackwell, 1930, p. 243.</ref>