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- In 1853 she founded the first women's-rights paper in the United States, Una, and in 1871 she published A History of the National Women's Rights Movement.
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Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis (born Aug. 7, 1813, Bloomfield, N.Y., U.S.—died Aug. 24, 1876, Providence, R.I.) was an American feminist and social reformer, active in the early struggle for woman suffrage and the founder of an early periodical in support of that cause.
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Paulina Wright Davis (née Kellogg; August 7, 1813 – August 24, 1876) was an American abolitionist, suffragist, and educator. She was one of the founders of the New England Woman Suffrage Association.
From 1853 to 1855, she edited and published a distinctively women’s rights newspaper The Una, which expressed broad views of individual freedom. Post-Civil War, she helped found the New England Woman Suffrage Association. In 1871, she published A History of the National Woman’s Rights Movement.
Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis was a forerunner of women’s rights, strategizing with the likes of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Ernestine Rose long before the first women’s rights convention to pass the Married Women’s Property Act in New York.
Davis, Paulina Wright (1813–1876) American feminist, reformer and suffragist. Born Paulina Kellogg on August 7, 1813, in Bloomfield, New York; died on August 24, 1876, in Providence, Rhode Island; one of two daughters and three sons of Captain Ebenezer (a volunteer in the War of 1812) and Polly (Saxton) Kellogg; married Francis Wright (a ...
In 1871 she wrote A History of the National Women's Rights Movement for Twenty Years... Her personal charm, wealth and position were valuable assets for the cause of women's rights in the years from 1850 until her death in 1876. Top. Scope and Content Note.
DAVIS, Paulina (Kellogg) Wright. Born 7 August 1813, Bloomfield, New York; died 24 August 1876, Providence, Rhode Island. Daughter of Captain Ebenezer and Polly Saxton Kellogg; married Francis Wright, 1833 (died 1845); Thomas Davis, 1849.
