Issue of the Revolution, November 19, 1868

1868-11-19

The Revolution was a weekly newspaper created by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton that was published from 1868-1872. The issue featured is volume 2, number 20.

Susan B. Anthony

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The Revolution first appeared in January, 1868 with Susan B. Anthony as publisher, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Parker Pillsbury as co-editors. The paper's articles and editorials reflected their radical views on issues affecting the political, social, sexual, economic, and educational status of women. George Francis Train promised to finance the papers but he was jailed in Ireland for his political views. Without his backing, The Revolution went into debt, and in 1870 Anthony was forced to give up the paper.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, on naming the Revolution: "There could not be a better name than Revolution. The establishing of woman on her rightful throne is the greatest revolution the world has every known or ever will know. To bring it about is no child's play… a journal called the Rosebud might answer for those who come with kid gloves and perfumes to lay immortal wreaths on the monuments which in sweat and tears others have hewn and built; but for us and for that great blacksmith of ours [Parker Pillsbury] who forges such red-hot thunderbolts for Pharisees, hypocrites, and sinners there is no name like the Revolution."

Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906 and Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902, “Issue of the Revolution, November 19, 1868,” RBSCP Exhibits, accessed March 14, 2025, https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/items/show/567.